Re: [Leica] Which Leica M6 should I buy?

[Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>]

Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> Paul Chefurka wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:10:49 -0400, "Peter Shier"
> > <pshier@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > >OK, then why would anyone want the lower mag models?
> >
> > For the visibility of the wide-angle frame lines.  Models like the .58
> > are intended for use with short lenses that can be focussed accurately
> > with the smaller effective baselength.
> >
> If you count the LUG posts complaining about such:
> there 4862 of them.
> It's as if they were listening to us and corrected the problem.
> Or people wrote in.
> Mark Rabiner

On the insane idea that they might be listening, the only thing I can
think of that would convice me to buy another M6 would be fixing the
FLARE!  

And I cannot believe it costs that much. The M2 finder just doesn't have
the FLARE like the FLARING M6 finder. (mine is the M6HM)

Dennis