Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To me it is highly logical that a company that wants to produce the best came out with a better mechanical camera. Good enough isn,t their "leit motiv ". simon jessurun > Yikes, I hit a raw nerve. I was just complimenting the quality of a > camera as being what I think is the best ever made. I didn't mean to > denigrate all earlier cameras or say that it took better pictures than > any other. > > Am I on the RUG? ;-) > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D. > Colen > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:44 PM > To: 'Leica Users Group' > Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica M3 purchase > > That's fine, and may well be true. But it hardly turns all Leicas before > it to chopped chicken liver. Would HCB have done better work with an MP? > Would Mary Ellen Mark do better work with an MP? Would Ted Grant do > better work with an MP? Would Jeffery Smith? Of course not. There is > always something "far more solid," and far more expensive out there. But > that doesn't make it better in real world terms. If the M6 was built > like a Bessa, then buying an MP would make a great deal of sense. But > given that an M6 will outlive any of the current owner's of M6s, the MP > is reduced, or elevated, to neck jewelry status - an expensive toy for > rich aficionados who believe that only if they possess the cr?me de la > cr?me can they hold their heads up. It is, in other words, a waste of > money. If someone's got the money, and wants to waste it, more power to > them. But deifying the MP the way some do strikes me as quite silly. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Jeffery Smith > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:38 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica M3 purchase > > > After having handled the MP, it is hard to handle anything else. It > feels > like it was carved from a billet of steel. People compare it to the > build > quality of the M3, but it seems far more "solid" and smoother to me. I > cannot imagine an RF being made any better than the new MP. > > Jeffery > > > At 03:16 PM 4/6/2005, you wrote: >>Hi Bob, >> >>I'm agree if somebody is looking for a M6 or M6TTL, but IMO once you >>have tried a MP the VF is really much more better than the M6 Saludos >>desde Barcelona Luis >>-----Mensaje original----- >>De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org >>[mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org]En nombre > de >>B. D. Colen >>Enviado el: miercoles, 06 de abril de 2005 0:17 >>Para: 'Leica Users Group' >>Asunto: RE: [Leica] Leica M3 purchase >> >>What ever you say, Gene, but here are the prices of the last M6s and >>M6TTL to sell on Ebay - $1380 for a .85 TTL >>$1035 for M6 .72 >>$1250 M6 in box >>$1499 WITH WINDER M >>$1175 for Chrome M6 .72 >>$1211 for a TTL >>$985 for a chrome M6 with one ding >>$1154 for .85 TTL >>And on March 31 an auction ended with only $1125 being bid for a mint >>.85 TTL that failed to meet the reserve. >> >>The prices have dropped through the floor. Now's the time, before Leica > >>goes belly up, to buy an M6. :-) >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org >>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > >>grduprey@aol.com >>Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:55 PM >>To: lug@leica-users.org >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M3 purchase >> >> >>Not from what I have seen, he is just about right. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >>To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> >>Sent: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:45:54 -0400 >>Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica M3 purchase >> >> >>Boy, Feli - you haven't priced M6s recently - you're as much as $250 >>high....;-) >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org >>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > >>Feli >>Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:19 AM >>To: Leica Users Group >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M3 purchase >> >> >>Used with meter: >>M6 or M6TTL $1300-1500 >>MP (demo) $2300 >> >>Used no meter: >>M4 $1000-1500 (add $250 for a CLA) >>M2 $ 800-1400 (add $250 for a CLA) >> >>New: >>MP (black) >> >>If I could only have one lens it would be a 35. >> >> >>feli >> >> >>On Apr 4, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Michael J Herring wrote: >> > OK, Gents. What would you consider a fair price and which body would > >> > you purchase yourselves? 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