Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Problems with Leica M6 0.85 rangefinder: flare
From: "m.sadat @verizon.net" <m.sadat@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:00:45 -0800

what is a rapid load kit?

 
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Thanks
Mehrdad Sadat


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Stephen
Holloway
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:13 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Problems with Leica M6 0.85 rangefinder: flare


>From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>
>
> > Alternatively, get an M3! You can buy 2 perfectly functioning M3s for
>the
> > price of an M6 and have enough money left to buy a fancy
> > lightmeter (and a  couple of rapidload kits).
>
>True?  The M3's I see listed all go for $1k or more, while I can get a new
>M6 TTL for $1700.
>

My late-model DS with a few dings and meter marks cost just under $700
dollars (in a Swiss camera shop). I just checked completed auctions on ebay
and there were quite a few at around that price. My rapidload kit was $80.

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Stephen Holloway

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