Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:52 AM 12/12/00 -0800, you wrote: >How many M3's that are beat up have seen professional use? PLenty.... >and the risk that the VF is not clear I haven't seen so many that have hard usage, but _many_ that show lots of scars from 40 years of amateur use and non-use (knocked around in storage), moldy shutter curtains, sticky mechanisms and, worst of all, viewfinders with fungus and faded rangefinders. >I realize that this started with a discussion of a M6 .85..... about the >same as a M3 in VF parlance..... but the M3 are WAY overpriced. Yes, I think so too; for the price of a decent M3 you could buy a brand-new or like-new M6. I like the old M3, used my first one about 25 years ago, but operationally compared to the M6 an M3 (and M2) leaves lots to be desired. John Hicks jbh@magicnet.net