Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 8:13?AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org > wrote: >... >... > Ever notic how every new DigiM is compared to the M3? Says something > special about that M3. > > And there is one more salient comment.... an M3, even form the original > series of manufacture (1953? 1954?) , is still a state of the art camera. > It > has never been eclipsed. While I like to think of the M6 as THE best M, > with its built in meter, the M3 is equally capable of making equally great > images. It is no better than an M3. ==================================================================================== My silky smooth M3 is 65 years old, and is still my favorite camera ever. I handled an M6 once, but it felt flimsy and cheap in comparison, and I like the viewfinder of the M3 better than all the later M's - it is ideal for my two most-used lenses, the 50 & 85/90 (I like the APSC sensor on my X-E2, since it gives me an 83mm field with a 50mm lens). And it wasn't a hardship to pair the M3 with my Sekonic L-28 for Kodachrome or Panatomic-X; with Tr-X I'd generally estimate exposure from experience. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt