RE: RE: [Leica] Next body -- M3/M6-.85?

["Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>]

Bob,

That loading spool is just a question of practicing the right technique. I
find that it is less prone to misloads than the m4/6 system, and marginally
slower. But maybe we should promote the M3/2 as having sucky loading in the
hope that it brings the price down? Worked similarly ("Canadians can't build
Leica bodies") on preventing m4-2/p prices from going up there with M4
bodies.

best of loading

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From: Ruralmopics@aol.com [mailto:Ruralmopics@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 4:10 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Next body -- M3/M6-.85?



In a message dated 11/2/99 1:33:09 PM, AStewart@gigaweb.com writes:

>But, why the aversion, it reall is easy to load an m3 with practice, and
>you will get fewer problems than with an M6. The time saved is 
infinitessimal.
>In your shoes I'd get a beater M4-2. Yes, it is medium-mag, but is a
sleeper
>body for users.

I don't do photography for my health. It's part of my livelihood. I simply 
refuse to mess with the separate spool. The last thing I need while I'm 
working is some spool scampering across the floor. 

As for the M4-2, if I decide the high mag finder is not that big of an issue

or that money IS a big issue, I will very likely go for either a used M4-2
or 
an M4-P. Incidently, they are exactly the same to me since I can't see the 
28mm frame and I don't use a 50mm so I'll never see the 75mm frame.

Bob (who feeds off the bottom where the M4-2 and M4-P cameras lie) McEowen