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Subject: [Leica] M6 and MP differences?
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:57:57 +0800
References: <2D9ABD4D-469F-4437-B994-0D1EE67AB9CB@gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20090601110022.02e89c88@pop.med.cornell.edu> <CAB7DF7F-1570-49DD-AB8B-75B38043D984@gmail.com> <4A258F10.20607@summaventures.com>

Here, there isn't much difference:

M8: RM11,000
M7: RM14,000
MP: RM16,000
M8.2: RM18,500

Being the cheap bugger I am, I went for the M8. :)

On Jun 3, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote:

> I still think that if I had to buy one Leica new it would be an MP.  
> I know that
> it is still film, but..On the other hand if someone dropped me off  
> a free ?4000
> M8.2 ....
>
> It's that price!
>
> Peter Dzwig
>
> Thein Onn Ming wrote:
>> Thanks for the warning. The shutter still operates all speeds
>> mechanically, doesn't it? I guess if all is lost I can still use  
>> my M8
>> as a meter...
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Chris Saganich wrote:
>>
>>> The M6ttl battery dies very quickly if the camera isn't turned  
>>> off so
>>> to speak.  So fast that I wondered if their wasn't a circuit  
>>> problem.
>>> This is the main reason (as well as the flair issue) that I  
>>> changed to
>>> the MP.  I've changed the battery in the MP once in 3 years and I  
>>> was
>>> happy to use it without a battery for a few months.
>>>
>>>
>>> At 06:35 AM 5/30/2009, you wrote:
>>>> Quick question for you experts - are there any significant
>>>> differences between the M6TTL and the MP other than no TTL flash on
>>>> the MP, RF flare fix, and the rewind knob?
>>>>
>>>> THEIN Onn Ming
>>>> *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com
>>>> www.flickr.com/mingthein
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Chris Saganich MS, CPH
>>> Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics
>>> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>>> New York Presbyterian Hospital
>>> chs2018 at med.cornell.edu
>>> http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/
>>> Ph. 212.746.6964
>>> Fax. 212.746.4800
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>>
>> THEIN Onn Ming
>> *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com
>> www.flickr.com/mingthein
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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THEIN Onn Ming
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www.flickr.com/mingthein







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