Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a later M6 TTL, apparently with a brass and shell. It seems that the black chrome is laid very thinly, as I'm only a year and a half into the camera, it's already starting to 'brass.' I certainly don't mind , as long it doesn't get that brown muddy look of the early M4-2 and M-4P. Slobodan Dimitrov Stephen Gandy wrote: > have you even seen one of Shintaro's paint jobs? > Leica's paint problems continued on the black paint M6 > Milleniums, whose paint is often thin and uneven because Leica had not > produced a black paint camera in decades. As Solms gained more paint > experience, M6 paint quality improved considerably. The Green M6 version > of the Millenium is a beauty, far better than the black Millenium. > > bottom line, Solms will be doing quite well if they can consistently > produce black paint cameras as good as Shintaro. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html