Re: [Leica] M-3 > M-6 0.85??? Help!

[Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil]

     If, as you say, you "CAN but [just] don't want to afford all of it," 
     why not put off trading anything in, and go ahead and get the M6 0.85, 
     and then LATER sell whatever equipment you find yourself using least 
     (i.e., liking least, needing least)?  That way you'd wind up with the 
     cameras and lenses that suit YOU best, rather than those that suit the 
     preferences of LUG members from whom you'd now take advice.
     
     Just a thought!
     
     Art Peterson

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Subject: [Leica] M-3 > M-6 0.85??? Help!
Author:  leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at internet
Date:    1/30/98 8:20 AM


Morning all,
     
i'm contemplating modernizing, trading some m-3's for the m-6 0.85 and 
probably get some new lenses too (the aspheric article in the society mag. 
i.e.).
     
i've recently been stung, 40mm C incompatible with one body (which?), some 
terrible results with a summi 50 collapsible recently obtained...
     
so i'm thinking of shrinking what has become a 'collection' and get back to 
a tight 'kit', 28 > 135 w/ the m6 085, and either the CL or 1 m3 if i can 
afford it.
     
means de-acquiring 2 3's and a bunch of lenses -
     
i'm 44 yrs old, are the 3's going to last another 40 yrs???  maybe.....
     
what would you guys do? (i can but don't want to afford all of it, and-- 
how is the new collapsible elmar and does it fit the old Sooky-M or is the 
new summi 50 any good <i still think the DR is sweet w/ or without eyes?>)