Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The question of whether the "old stuff" - by which you mean the pre M4p Ms - is indeed "better built" is one that is debated here ad nauseum, and I won't get into it other than to say that on an emotional, tactile, level, I suspect you are right - but folks who claims far greater expertise than mine say it just ain't so..... But other than that...I am including all Ms in the modern category. I am not referring to any of them as "old stuff." They are all "modern" mechanical rangefinder cameras - the M6 happens to have a meter; the M6 TTL has a half-assed versions of a modern flash system; the M5 is a world unto itself, but a world any M users should be comfortable in; and the earlier Ms are M6s without meters and - some of them - with different frame lines. Whether or not they are built better..... B. D.