Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Titanium M6
From: "Peter Choy" <pmcchoy@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 18:31:32 -0700

> I have a titanium M6 and after several years of use it shows a/some wear and
> b/there is brass underneath that titanium coating. It is a nice enough
> looking camera, but I prefer my M's to be black! The common fallacy is to
> believe that the M6 Titanium is what it purports to be, in fact it is a brass
> top-plate and baseplate which is titanium nitride coated. The ostrich-leather
> does not appeal to me, looks like it had suffered some kind of "social
> disease", the Leica Herpes Simplex! One of the drawbacks with this model is
> that the shutterspeed dial is the same colour, kind of yellowish with white
> lettering. virtually impossible to read in low light and totally impossible
> to read in bright sunlight!
> Tom A
>

On the other hand, I rather like the looks of mine.  It complements
the titanium finish RapidWinder with matching (prototype) RapidGrip
and one-of-a-kind engraved titanium finish SoftRelease very nicely!
Thanks Tom.

Rgds,
Peter.