Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
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From the folks that I've spoken with they all say it was too big, too
great a departure, that it just didn't look like a Leica. Also if you
used some of the deeper set wide angle lens you would damage the meter
probe. They are out there to be bought but you will pay as much as for a
new M6 TTL HM. Size wise it sounds like a good match to the R8.
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Cheers Wilber GFE
tel. 803-469-2440
http://www.jeffcoatphotography.com
Barry Hobden wrote:
> Gabriele,
>
> I, too, am at a loss to understand this. The M5 was one of the
> best-engineered and best-built items in the Leica line (rivalling
> the M3 in build quality). However, I suspect that the introduction
> of too many *real* innovations in one model was just too much for
> conservative-minded leicaphiles to accept. What puzzles me most is
> the M5's general lack of popularity even today.
>
> Here on the LUG, the M5 is essentially unacknowleged. It's like a
> dirty little family secret that no one wants to discuss openly. I
> suspect that when the collectors line up their M-bodies on the
> shelves of their glass-fronted display cases, they don't like to
> see anything standing a bit taller than the others.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Barry
>
> ( ;{
>
> --- Gabriele_Müller <hepac@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I for my person never understood why so many people did not like
> > the M5.
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