Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Regarding the quality of M6 vs older M's - didn't they use guttapercha before M6? (BTW, my relatively new M6 also broke while under the passport warranty.) - Ihtisham > From bowtie@sean.abest.com Tue Jul 16 04:52:57 1996 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Cc: bowtie@abest.com > Subject: The KFC M6 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Steve Gandy wrote about the "commemorative" Leicas. I couldn't agree more. > As a looong time Leica user and collector I know too well the thrill of > finding an old, historic three digit "A" or a 72 or , or, or - I've had them > all. But the idea of Leitz (or whatever their name is today) MAKING a rare > camera boarders on insult to our intelligence. > > As to the lessening of quality in M cameras. Frankly, I don't see > that. As great as the M3 is or was, one would be hard put to say that it is > better in any meaningful way than the M6. Any comments abut price ought to > be viewed in the context of inflation over the years. I really think that > the M6 is probably no more expensive than the M3 in 1953. > > Bowtie >