Fondled an M2 Last Night

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I've had my M6 for a couple months now. I've gotten used to the way it feels and I like it, but last night, I was visiting a friend and messed around with her M2 for a bit and was surprised at how different it felt. i mean, it felt "the same" but still different. The viewfinder and focus patch seemed brighter and easier to use to me, and now I understand what people mean when they describe the wind lever as "buttery".

It almost made me wish i'd gotten one instead of the M6.. almost.. , but I do love the m6's meter. I don't think i've had any shots yet that weren't exposed properly, that weren't user error anyway.
 
good aren't they? :D careful though they will start to preoccupy your thoughts and then your wallet will be in big trouble!

i ca see it now: "a second body would be useful... you know... for other focal lengths, different film......"

I'll second Roger: DOOMED!
 
Oh lord, haven't we all been there? You may as well just give in and get one now, if you don't it's just delaying the inevitable ;)
 
I started with an M6, thought the meter was essential, and I'd only need one Leica, but then... oh, never mind, just get an M2! :D
 
Yes, the M2, M3 and MP all have that je ne sais quoi handling....and, be warned, do NOT ever fondle a MP....Though I bet you are tempted??? Hehe, put up all the resistance you can muster. I think the best looking Leica is the M2 version with a lever rewind and no selftimer: clean lines and pure functionality.
 
thomasw_ said:
Yes, the M2, M3 and MP all have that je ne sais quoi handling....and, be warned, do NOT ever fondle a MP....Though I bet you are tempted??? Hehe, put up all the resistance you can muster. I think the best looking Leica is the M2 version with a lever rewind and no selftimer: clean lines and pure functionality.
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Ahh just what I have, the lever rewind M2 with no self timer.

Since getting the M2, I have fallen in love with its handling and everything.

Since then the EOS 3 and Mamiya C330F have been sold.

Sure I bought an OM2n but only on the strength that size and relatively speaking its the closest to a Leica M feel in a SLR that I could find and I felt matched the M2 experience give or take the electronics/battery dependency.

The M6 is a great camera but the M2 wins everytime for me for the super clear framelines and nice bright RF patch.

Vicky
 
I remember my first Leica, an M6 TTL. I thought I was in heaven. But little did I know that I was still riding the escalator. I eventually got an MP. Yep, I was now at the threshold of the pearly gates. When I sold my M6 TTL and picked up an M3 just seconds after, I knew I had been finally saved from the dark world of pixels.

Please pass the butter. ;)
 
Hmm ... my M2 is a nice camera to fondle but nothing fondles like my very early no preview lever double stroke M3.

The M2 ain't even close sorry! :p
 
raid said:
Fondling cameras is not my fist choice.
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Yes ... dangerous activity.

It can start off innocently and before you know it cameras are covered in sweaty fingerprints and often spots of saliva.

Far better off sticking to an enormous lens collection Raid! :angel:
 
The original M4 fondles well, but not the M4-2 or M4-P. The camera to die for is the M2-R or the military version of it.

Wiggy, I think that it'd be safe to include tears in the body fluid list. Tears for all the cameras I should have bought but didn't, or that I had and should have kept but sold for a quick profit. The biggest "shouldabought" regret was a 180mm f/2.8 Elmarit with factory original preset diaphragm in Visoflex II mount for $200. But $200 was a LOT of money back in the early seventies.
 
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Pictures, please?
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o.k. - here's one!
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Like you, Bhop, I didn't think I'd come to even "like" a meterless Leica. In fact, at one time I handled (not fondled) an M3 and I was a bit disappointed.

But then... when I got my M3 I was hooked on it. What a beautiful piece of machinery! :)

Of course, I had to lay my paws on an M4. I managed to get an M4-2, and I really like it.

What it is about meterless bodies?

Probably that they make us feel smart, as if we're the ones in control, not the built-in meter. Or that we're not being told "when" to shoot. Whatever the reason, they're great machines.

Now... you'll need one soon. :) And that's OK. We all have been through it; you'll survive... ;)
 
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