Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/02

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Ikon
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Sat Oct 2 14:44:26 2004
References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041002231328.02149ec0@mail.screengang.com> <3.0.6.32.20041002170231.007fcab0@pop.mail.yahoo.ca> <7744b3a7744ce7.7744ce77744b3a@shaw.ca> <7744b3a7744ce7.7744ce77744b3a@shaw.ca> <3.0.6.32.20041002170231.007fcab0@pop.mail.yahoo.ca> <3.0.6.32.20041002171126.00884b80@pop.mail.yahoo.ca> <6.1.2.0.2.20041002231328.02149ec0@mail.screengang.com>

Nathan....I also have one of those "rare" non-TTL bodies.  I stopped using
it and reverted back to my older .72 model, hoping that maybe I could make
a killing on eBay.   But last week one in perfect condition sold for only
$1200; so much for my dream.   But this is what prompted me to start this
thread.

My local dealer here in Montreal told me that he can't get $1500 CDN for a
used regular M6.  But unless that Zeiss Ikon turns out to be some kind of
miracle camera (and a bigger viewfinder alone won't do it for me) and I
wanted a rangefinder, that used M6 is sure tempting.

By the way, I actually prefer the .72 model, and hindsight tells me that I
was slightly crazy when I bought the .85 model.

-dan c.

At 11:26 PM 02-10-04 +0200, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>My 0.85 viewfinder on the M6 is the best of them all. That is the only 
>Leica rangefinder body I have kept following my digital epiphany. And to 
>make it even better, it is one of the "rare" non-TTL versions of the 
>M6HM. Not that I care, I have already deflowered it from a collector's 
>point of view by using it extensively since buying it a couple of years ago.
>
>Nathan
>


Replies: Reply from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)
Reply from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)
Reply from nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)
In reply to: Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)
Message from bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)
Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] Erwin Put's Take on New Rangefinders)
Message from bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)
Message from nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Zeiss Ikon)