Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Almost true - the grey zinc showing underneath the black chrome of my M6 from 1985 is quite handsome. All the best! Raimo Photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - ---------- > From: InfinityDT@aol.com > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Black vs. silver > Date: 10. syyskuuta 1999 20:16 > > In a message dated 9/10/99 1:11:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net writes: > > << But when the paint wares done to the brass it has such character! Looking > for an M6 like that right now. > Cheers Wilber >> > > Don't get your hopes up. Black M6's are plated, not painted, and they're not > brass underneath either. When it wears you see an ugly zinc-colored > (grey/silver) metal showing through.