Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., A Leica M is certainly not as water sealed as a D2X, 1DsMkII or a E-1 , but my experience is that it stands a certain amount of rain better than many other film and digital SLR cameras from the past and from now. I used my M6 on longer, sometimes very rainy, hikes in the alps and it got rather wet more than once, without making troubles. I would consider this as rudimentary sealed, but of course not enough sealed for real professional field work like Ted's collegues here: http://tinyurl.com/mjts9 :-) Didier At 23:22 26.08.2006, "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: >Your fascinating post begs the question, of course, of why Leica never got >around to providing even the most rudimentary weatherproof seals in its >high-end cameras. The Ms were, after all, a standard part of many PJs' kits >up until the 80s, if not the 90s, and that means it was a given they would >be subjected to the elements from time to time.