Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
I have an idea for the new M.
From reading another thread, about print borders, there are people who enjoy making or enjoy seeing prints where distinctive notches in the film frame appear in the print.
Negatives from a Hasselblad, for example, have a distinctive notch. Seeing this in the print, you know the image was made with a Hasselblad. Another example, which I’m going to employ with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic, is the appearance of septum numbers in the image when a six-sheet Grafmatic film holder is used (These are the digits 1 to 6 corresponding to the septum the film sheet was in. Some photographers remove the number disk from their Grafmatic, however).
So rather than make yet another trivial variation on M6, then what better way for owners to subtly display their Leica ownership than by having the film gate contain special notches that only this new M6 has. Indeed, the notches could even be something like /\/\ signifying the Leica M.
I was at Momento exhibition of George Zimbel in Montreal. Large prints under Focomat.
It was obviously not his priority. Some prints were not perfectly aligned.
Zimbel is one of the few real Leica photogs left. Simply because Leica and film were much more common among photographers during film only times.
By now it is obvious what newer Leicas are not priced for someone like Winograd (maybe M3/2 used).
And so is film.
I'm sure some "price back then and now wisdom" will show up, but to me it is clueless water under the bridge.
I have started to use film for real in 2012. Kodak BW in bulks was something like 40 USD. And M4-2 in 2015 costed me around 700 with shipping. With this prices I was able to do hundreds of meters every year with thinking what is in the content, not how borders looks like.
No more. Too expensive.