Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] POP and Chrome Finishes
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 13:25:49 -0500

At 12:43 PM 1/31/98 EST, Tom Shea wrote:
>Every commentator I have read notes that the chrome finish on the M6 is
not as
>good as the M6.  A couple of years ago Popular Photography did a feature on
>the M6.  They noted that while the M6 quality is high, it is not as good as
>the M2, M3 or M4.  The engraving is not as good.  The finish of the internal
>gears is not as good.  I have not heard anyone who disputes this.  Leica
makes
>excellent cameras, but they are not alone.  Others have standards that are
>just as high.  

Wow!  Once again, when the going gets tough, the tough fall back on POP as
if the folks there knew what they were speaking of.  Pray, check the
Archives:  this review was discussed in detail some years back.  It's a
miserable review poorly conducted.

I would appreciate your citing a single "commentator" who feels the "the
chrome finish on the M6 is not as good as the M6", whatever that tautologic
statement is intended to mean.

Marc



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