Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Nothing wrong with me after all!
From: kwilcox@mail.davison.k12.mi.us (Ken Wilcox)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:36:56 -0400

Watch your wallet! You have contracted Leicaitis!

Ken Wilcox


At 9:39 PM +0000 2/1/0, Les Bonser wrote:
>I posted a couple days; a little story about going to the camera store,
>actually holding an M6 for the first time, and walking out of the store
>without buying it! Obviously, something was wrong with me to pass up on the
>opportunity.  :-)
>
>Well, nothing is wrong with me after all. I bought the camera today.
>
>I called the camera store yesterday to get some more info; the store staff
>didn't know the price when I was in there on Saturday. They said the owner
>wouldn't be there until today and he was the only one that knew anything
>about the Lecias. Called back today and the owner indicated that the camera
>was used and he gave me a price for the camera and for the attached 50mm f2
>Summicron lens.
>
>Went over at lunch. The owner recognized me; I bought my Contax G2 and Lecia
>Minilux from the same guy; when he realized I was a repeat customer, he
>knocked a couple hundred off the price. The camera felt better the second
>time. There was no manual, but he showed me some "tricks" with the camera
>(mainly how to load it). The rest seemed easy to figure out.
>
>I thought about it for about five minutes and eventually decided to buy it.
>The only wear marks are a couple very minor scratches on the knurling (is
>this the right word? you know the little ridges on the edge) of the battery
>compartment cover.
>
>Ran a roll of TX through the camera after getting home. The roll is hanging
>in the bathroom right now drying. The pictures look pretty good (at least at
>a quick glance while wet!).
>
>The only problem I've had so far is that the lens didn't have a lens cap and
>both the store where I bought it and another one near work didn't have one
>in the right size.
>
>I compared the M6 side-by-side with my G2: I think I still like the feel of
>the G2 better, but the M6 is very definitely quieter. I'm looking forward to
>doing more side-by-side comparisons.
>
>Les


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