[Leica] Leica M6 Anniversary/ M3 Rules for Me

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 8:13?AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org
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wrote:
>...
>...
> Ever notic how every new DigiM is compared to the M3?  Says something
> special about that M3.
>
> And there is one more salient comment.... an M3, even form the original
> series of manufacture (1953? 1954?) , is still a state of the art camera.
> It
> has never been eclipsed.  While I like to think of the M6 as THE best M,
> with its built in meter, the M3 is equally capable of making equally great
> images.  It is no better than an M3.
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My silky smooth M3 is 65 years old, and is still my favorite camera ever.
I handled an M6 once, but it felt flimsy
and cheap in comparison, and I like the viewfinder of the M3 better than
all the later M's - it is ideal for my two
most-used lenses, the 50 & 85/90 (I like the APSC sensor on my X-E2, since
it gives me an 83mm field with a
50mm lens).  And it wasn't a hardship to pair the M3 with my Sekonic L-28
for Kodachrome or Panatomic-X;
with Tr-X I'd generally estimate exposure from experience.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
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