Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For the few (any?) of you that care like I do about the aesthetic nuances of a Leica system, I offer the following comments on the Titanium M6. The finish is elegant and looks quite good. It is a substantially darker color than the silver chrome finish. It is a matt finish - no shine. The finish is very well done - even and flawless. It had a feeling of depth than the silver chrome finish lacks. Curiously, the little rewind release lever is silver chrome - not titanium finish. All of the other exposed metal parts have the titanium finish. It does not look very good with silver chrome lenses but looks fine with black lenses. The leather is shinny. The fake ostrich style of the leather is not quite as ugly in person as in the photos. It looks like it would be slippery, but is not. They use all black (instead of chrome) screws in the lens mount. Lastly, it looks much better with my black dot treatment ;) Tom Shea