Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The J of the M6J stands for "jade", since each of the series is a (rather precious) unicat with a jade inlay & engravement in the top plate. The more vulgar interpretation of the J is "jealaous", because hardly anyone can afford this special collectable. Further, it is known, that you can hardly use the M6J, because (inner) parts of the shutter are made from jade also, with the result, that the shutter will break if you use the 1/250. Hence, just an untouched M6J garantees the max value. Alf - -------------------------------------------------- At 17:01 27.10.1997 GMT, you wrote: > >I feel I ought to apologise for stirring up a bit of a >hornets nest on M6 specials! I hadn't expected >it to be such an emotive topic, but the responses >have been interesting and informative to me at >least. > >I don't want to extrapolate this thread beyond its >useful lifespan (which it probably reached a few >days ago), but could someone explain the differences >between an "ordinary" M6 (if that isn't a contradiction >in terms) and the M6 "J" as I'm not familiar with >this version. > >Thanks, >Simon. >