Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I wanted to know if any of the available lenses can be ordered >with the titanium finish. > Dumb ... It seems as if this is a cosmetic consideration only. > Perhaps I should try to decide which of the available lenses > to get. This is even more of a bummer. I've photographed for > 20 years, using mainly fixed focal length lenses, so the decision > should be fairly straightforward, but it's not. George, The question isn't dumb. The titanium lenses can be found in 35 and 50mm, and soon perhaps in 75mm. As far as the camera finish is concerned, it is very much a matter of taste unless you happen to spend considerable time in the tropics ... in which case the titanium finish makes sense. I use a chrome (silver) M6 and a titanium M6. Same camera. In some of the places I wander off to, the "black" camera is a signal the owner is a "professional" ... whatever that means. I prefer to be seen by the locals, including those with machine guns, as a tourist. I will now duck incoming fire and defer to those on the list with much more experience in the exotica of Leica cameras! Glenn Glenn Thrall gthrall@ix.netcom.com