Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The glass pressure plate is only desirable to collectors. It makes no difference in actual use other than the glass pressure plate would be more susceptible to impact damage. The pressure plate was changed to metal in 1957 from 844 001 and up. John Collier > From: Shel Belinkoff <belinkoff@earthlink.net> > > I was looking at the description of an M3 earlier and the seller says > that it has the more desirable ceramic pressure plate, rather than the > later metal version. > > Is the ceramic pressure plate more desirable, and, if so, in what > way? I was of the impression that the ceramic pressure plate was > found only in early M3s, but the one offered for sale as a 902... > serial number. Would the metal plate have been replaced with the > ceramic one in a body of this later vintage? > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html