[Leica] The M5

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Leonard Taupier <len-001 at 
verizon.net>wrote:

> Hello Vince,
>
> I have a M5 and love the camera. It has been recalibrated to use modern
> batteries and works perfectly. It's a little heavier then the other M 
> bodies
> and a couple lenses can't be used because of interference with the swing up
> meter. But it handles very nicely and is one of my favorites. If my memory
> serves me right I think Richard Man had one as well.  I'm also sure some of
> the collector's in the group have one. I have never heard it described as
> much deplored even though it was not popular when first released.
>
> Len
>

I've never heard it called deplored.  It was never popular, partly because
it came out about the same time as the much cheaper CL, but  It is a fine
camera.  I've owned two of them, and both I think are still in the hands of
LUG members since I am now largely digital.

 Cameraquest has a nice article on the camera here:

http://www.cameraquest.com/m5.htm


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>
>
> On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:
>
>  I read on flickr of the jet blue adventure but i'm not clear on why this
>> leads to your not keeping batteries in the camera? The M6 has Leica's
>> first
>> TTL meter, is that right? Was it or the M5 (not counting the lovely CL of
>> course) the first M series with a meter?
>>
>> [ Totally off the point, I have yet to see anyone on the LUG cop to owning
>> the much deplored M5. How bad can they be? When you find them, they ain't
>> cheap; but nobody seems to own one either. ]
>>
>