Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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.