Leica M6 White-out Patch issue !!!

[Moriturii]

I love it, if Leica does it "it's fine, just do this that and the other and then these tricks, who cares, relax bro, here have a puff of this". If Leica didn't do it, and anyone else did it, they would be pointing and laughing, scoffing in hordes, swinging their Leicas around their necks, more proud then their newborn babies. Unbelievable. What a bunch of people. Still love the technical know-how of this forum though.

Last I checked Elliott Erwitt uses a Canon Eos with a 28-105mm lens. Scrub isn't he?

 

[Tompas]

(...) Being a dslr user, a great viewfinder is what i want. 100% view, 100% magnification, it's pleasure for my eye. Being a rf user, i expect the same pleasure as much as possible for the money i paid. (...)

Try a Bessa R3m or R3a. Very, very nice viewfinder, very nice camera (if you like 50mm lenses).

 

[pb908]

Ferider, actually the cost of my IIIC BP (the busted body + the paint work) is less than 300$ 😀..
sorry for OOT.

I have one more "issue" with my friend m6, looks like design problem to me, I think I'll put it in another thread. flame it on !!

 

[semilog]

I love it, if Leica does it "it's fine, just do this that and the other and then these tricks, who cares, relax bro, here have a puff of this". If Leica didn't do it, and anyone else did it, they would be pointing and laughing, scoffing in hordes, swinging their Leicas around their necks, more proud then their newborn babies. Unbelievable. What a bunch of people. Still love the technical know-how of this forum though.

Obviously, it was a design that could be, and was, improved.

That fact did not stop top-flight photographers -- Salgado, Allard, and hundreds of others -- from doing fantastic work with the camera. Not to mention many amateurs. As I posted above, I worked with an M6 0.85 (reputedly the most flare-prone of the bunch) for over a decade before I got an MP upgrade which pretty much eliminated the issue. Before and after the MP optics: not a big deal. I still wouldn't trade the M6 for any other camera that Leica's ever made. Not for the M7 or MP, not for the M2 or M3 or M4. For me, for the way I shoot, the classic M6 is -- overall -- the best.

You want criticisms of Leica, I'll dish (especially about their now-independent microscope business, where I got to deal with Leica service on a beautifully-designed half-million dollar instrument; buy me a beer some time). But the flare thing is really seriously overblown.

 

[Pablito]

Thank goodness for the internet. In the old days, folks just took pictures & stuff like this, when anyone noticed it was a "quirk."