Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M6HM choice
From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:20:19 -0500

Interesting.  Is it possible to replace a current version M6 TTL finder with
an M3 finder (and still have the LED's show up)?

Dan

> Forgive me for crowing, but I may have been the first (or one of)
> to convert the
> standard M6 to the .85 finder, back in 1995. I used the M6-J
> finder and the
> conversion was very simple. I showed the camera at the LHSA
> meeting that year. When
> Solms issued the production .85 model I bought one and converted
> my experiment to an
> M3 finder. Leica M finders are, generally speaking,
> interchangeable in the camera
> bodies.
>
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal