Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leonard Taupier wrote: > I just saw one of these at my dealers. It looks new in a velvet > covered box sitting in satin covered cutouts. It comes with a Hexar > 50mm f2 lens. The manuals and warranty cards are still sealed. The > only thing I know about this camera is it takes M lenses and has a > built-in motor drive. No film advance lever. How desirable is this > camera and what are its drawbacks? > > Len Len, I used to have one. It was a nice camera, handled pretty well, felt good int he hands, viewfinder was plenty bringht. It did have to me one major problem...the lens release button stuck out on the front of the camera and had a light spring tension behind it. It was very easy to accidentally depress it and have your lens come un-mounted...happened to my 28 latest elmarit and I had to send the lens to DAG to get fixed. Mayvbe they corrected this on later versions. The lenses all seemed to work just fine the Konica 50 on my Ms and my M lenses on the Konica. I kept the 50 f2 Konica and still shoot with it. Is a very nice lens, IMHO. I sold the Hexar and bought first an M5 that had a separation issue in the mirror so I sent it back and got an M6ttl. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html