Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles E. Albertson wrote: > > At 09:32 PM 9/19/96 CST, you wrote: > >Hi group, > > > >I've seen ads for M4-2's which sell for a lot less than regular M4's. > >Not knowing what all the different models are about, could someone > >explain this one? Why does it sell for so much less than a regular M4, > >which is almost as high as an M6? Are these things junk or what & what > >are its distinguishing characteristics? > > > The M4-2 was made in the Leitz plant in Canada for a couple of years in > the late 1970s, and the lower prices vis a vis M4's can be attributed to a > couple of things: collector disdain for anything not manufactured in > Wetzlar, or a belief by some users that the quality control in the Canadian > plant wasn't as good as in Wetzlar. I own an M4-2 (bought it used) and its > always worked fine. I got flamed on a newsgroup a couple of months ago when > I expressed the former viewpoint (collector disdain) by some guy who said > every M4-2 he'd encountered was junk. > > Chuck Albertson > Seattle, Wash.I have serveral M cameras including an M4-2. It is no different from the others interms of reliability and feel. Jeff Hymes