Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/26
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At 6:44 PM -0700 8/26/03, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Marc
>
>Correct! The "cassette cylinder" was reduced in size because the wall
>thickness of the chassis casting (or extrusion) was increased to make
>a stronger camera.
>
>Jerry
>
>Marc James Small wrote:
>
>> At 05:38 PM 8/26/03 -0400, Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics wrote:
>> >Does anyone have a classic M6 and use Leica cassettes. I'm curious if the
>> base plate design is the same as the M4-2, with the hook protruding down.
>> I've seen photos of classic M6's with base plates that look as though they
>> will open the cassettes but without the hook.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Early (Wetzlar) M6's still had the locking lug on the baseplate. This was
>> deleted when production shifted to Solms but old-style baseplates are still
>> available as repair parts. Sometime late in the life of the M6, the size
>> of the cassette cylinder was reduced, rendering use of any of the cassettes
>> impossible, a situation apparently continued on the MP-New and the M7.
>>
> > Marc
But I can still use all my cassettes in my M6TTL's. So things didn't
get changed that much.
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