Re: [Leica] chrome body, black lens

[Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

Hi, Ben
From l968 until about the advent of the M5 (l972?) -- the 
"normal" color for the bodies was chrome.....and ALL the 
lenses were black....most M4s are chrome, and ALL the lenses 
sold with them (not M-4-2, the original M4) were black.....
Looks fine....of course, this was the "norm" with Nikon 
from about 1957-79....chrome bodies with black lenses.

Beginning with the M5, Nikon F3, Canon F1, the "normal" 
color was black....with black lenses.....

The only reason the chrome lens looks funny on a black body
is because it deviates from the "common" pairings that we 
have grown so accustomed to!!

I have one chrome body (m4) and one black one (m4p) -- two of 
my lenses are chrome, two are black!!  (and yes, I use the 
chrome ones on the black body)  Over the years, I've had 
perhaps 6 chrome bodies and 3 black ones, and ALL kinds of 
lenses (Leica, Nikon and Canon LTM)

Didn't seem to mess up the mojo....
Walt

On Sat, 23
Jan
1999, debugger wrote:

> I have a black M6HM and a set of black M lenses.  I'm thinking of
> getting a chrome M6 as a second body, to use with slower film.  I've
> seen a black body with a chrome lens attached and I find it very ugly.
> I want to solicit the impressions of people who have seen a chrome body
> and black lens combination.  I think it would still look fine.  What do
> you think?
> 
> (I know, I know, it's the pictures that matter.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
>