Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Terry Sham wrote: > I would like to buy 2 M6 TTLs for my outfit, a black and a silver, a 0.72 > and a 0.85, What combination will you choose? Why? > > 1. Black 0.72 & Silver 0.85 > 2. Silver 0.72 & Black 0.85 Lucien replied: Chrome 0,58 and black 0,85. Or the reverse. Who need a 0,72 anymore. Simon pitches in: To me it would depend on why you want two bodies. If it's to have different focal lengths, one on each body more or less permanently attached and with the same film type in both, I don't see that it would matter. Just buy bodies with the optimum finder for their intended lenses and toss a coin to pick the finish. The only case where I could see a reason to go with one over the other is if you plan to do street shooting more with one focal length than the other in which case whichever that one is should probably be black. Alternatively, you might be planning to carry color in one, and B/W in the other. I sometimes do this and have a black M4-P as my B/W camera, and a chrome M6 as my color which I find is a nice aide memoir. The problem with this approach is that I believe it's best to get two bodies as nearly identical in all functional respects as possible. That way you pick one or the other purely baceause of the film it contains and not as a result of a factor such as the finder magnification. In this case I'd probably just get two 0.72 bodies as happy mediums. My 1 cent x 2. Simon Stevens