[Leica] For Sale.... Wheeler Dealer Buy a new lens to go with that M Body!

[Mark Rabiner]

I've not put film in any of my film cameras either Frank. Too excited about
making photographs with my D700 and new lenses.


On 3/23/15 5:58 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I have one of these Mark, I had two but sold one last year. The Leicavit
> convinced me to buy a matching Tom Abrahamson Rapid Winder for my M6.
> I was only vaguely aware that they re-used the name on a later camera.
> Sadly neither has had a film in for some years and if I were not so lazy I
> should sell them.
> Frank
> 
>> On 21 Mar, 2015, at 20:07, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok I found something
>> http://leicaphilia.com/the-mp-whats-old-is-new-again/
>> 
>> The old MP came out in 1956 and was a PJ version of the M3 and had a
>> Leicavit on it. They took off the self timer.
>> You couldn't be anybody to get one the  camera was restricted to ³bonafide
>> working press photographers.²
>> They made 449 of them.
>> They were like a prelude to an M2.
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/19/15 4:14 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I thought the MP had an electric shutter, like the M7?????
>>> 
>>> I could change the wording, if you prefer......
>>> But if you buy it, that would save me some effort.....Interested?
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Lew Schwartz
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:47 PM
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] For Sale.... Wheeler Dealer Buy a new lens to go with
>>> that M Body!
>>> 
>>> Isn't the MP more recent?
>>> 
>>> -Lew Schwartz
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Do you still shoot film?  The M6 is the most recent, metered by battery,
>>>> mechanical camera   Take out the battery and you have the same function as
>>> a
>>>> late M4/M3/M2!)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photographer
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>> 
>> 
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