[Leica] Leica M6 spotted in Globe and Mail Magazine

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CHRIS NUTTALL-SMITH

 From Friday's Globe and Mail

May 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM EDT

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The Leica M6 (Hamin Lee)

The Globe and Mail

*The Leica M6 would like to remind your new digicam that there's a 
critical component its designers forgot: a soul*
The M6 is squat and unassuming, beautiful only where Leica's legendary 
cameras have always been: on the inside. It's not fashioned from 
titanium or silicon but from low-tech brass and black-enamelled zinc. 
Crack it open and its guts will reveal a beguiling mess of springs, 
gears and glass. It doesn't even

need a battery, save for the light meter. And yet, nearly 25 years after 
its introduction, the M6 is as quick and intuitive as ever, its lenses 
eerily sharp.

Rather than rendering mere zeros and ones into pixels on a microchip, 
the M6 captures actual, analog, utterly ephemeral shards of light?split 
seconds in time and space?in a bed of silver halide and dye. And that 
from the press of a single chromed button, the quiet whir of a clockwork 
and the slip of a rubberized cloth shutter. And a single, nearly 
imperceptible click.