Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>wrote: >However, having owned and shot an MDa, M3, M2, M42, 2 CL's, CLE, 3 m5's, 3 >m6's, 2 m7's and an M8, my favorite M is my Wetzlar M6, It has griptac, M3 >wind lever, cleaned up framelines with no flare finder. Yummy. Elegant. I >only wish it was brass like the M4. >My M3 was not a camera to love. I hated the loading, so I got the fast >load kit, I hated the double stroke, so I had Ken Ruth convert it to single >stroke. While a handsome camera, I never loved it. >To me, the classic M6 is the best replaceable sensor camera ever made by >Leica. ====================================================================================================================================== As George says, YMMV. I love the M3. I've used M2R, M3 DS and SS, and M4-2, but I keep coming back to the M3, mostly for the high mag finder. And I used to have MUCH more trouble loading the M4-2 than I ever did with the separate spool. I think the fast load kit was the worst of all three systems. I wish there was an M3 with built-in meter; I handled an M6 at a store once, and it felt cheap compared to the M3 and M2 (plus it had the too-wide VF). Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt