Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think that Leica already makes a camera that satisfies all the wishes expressed in this thread, namely the R8. And if you don't like the R8, then consider the R7, or R6.2 or R5 etc. Please, leave the M6 alone! I enjoy loading the camera through the bottom. The Vulcanite looks beautiful, don't replace it with the tacky non-descript rubber found on modern SLRs. The lack of a "high-eyepoint" style viewfinder is only a problem with wide-angle lens, and many other modern cameras are no different. I have several auto exposure cameras, but I find that I use them in manual mode about 95% of the time. Exposures with my manual M6 are the most consistent. It doesn't require auto-exposure All the little problems (and they can't be that large; people have been taking wonderful pictures with the Leica for most of this century with models far less convenient than the M6!) add to the charm of the camera, and I believe that charm is about 75% of what the Leica is all about. Take that away and you are left with a machine that has to compete head-on with a dozen other cameras that have it beat on every technological count. And that would spell the end of the M6. The press photographers who have become spoiled by zillion frame per second SLRs are free to use them. They have a huge selection to choose from. I've said it before, the M6 will never be obsolete because it ALREADY IS OBSOLETE! Just one person's opinion Dan C.