lens-release button the black chrome M-A?

[zuiko85]

Both my cameras are black chrome. I do have some peeves:
1) The hinged plastic tip on the wind lever tends to make arcuate marks on the wind lever.

2) When you flip open the rewind lever and start winding, you end up with an arcuate mark on the top of the rewind lever where it meets the sharp edge of the wind knob.

These seem far less obvious on silver chrome cameras, for some reason. I know that this seems super nit-picky. But, since we are delving deep into the aesthetics of these cameras, I had to get it off my chest.

Oh be honest now, you only posted this so you could find an excuse to use the word "arcuate".
Not saying that's not a valid reason you understand.
Just checked my M4-2. Damm, I've got 'arcuate' marks too. Drat! Now I'll never be able to un-see them.

 

[Archlich]

Will we ever see a new film M with the M10 viewfinder ( claimed to have a better eye point and improved 28mm visibility ) ?

I bet the most technological advanced film-related product Leica will ever be willing to offer would be a one-way time machine that brings you back to 1954.

 

[Huss]

Full frame angels.

Then that would be forty two.

 

[ian_watts]

My black M-A has the 'screw' type lens release.

 

[ian_watts]

Notice how the film advance lever mechanism is canted/tilted? So much for build excellence.
It's perfectly aligned on both my M3 cameras - after over 50 years of use.
Just checked my M5 - used since the 1970s - perfectly aligned on that one too.
Same for all the other Ms I have.

That's just a perspective effect – the lever is going away from the viewpoint of the camera taking the photo (assuming that these originate as photographs of actual cameras and are not CGI mockups). If you look at the lever from behind (from the same set of publicity photos) you'll see that it isn't tilted in the way you suggest.

 

[agoglanian]

I just wish my M-A had the M3/MP style rewind lever. It's a small touch and I guess if it REALLY bothered me I could find a black chrome one some place.

Instead I'll just load another roll of film in it and keep shooting.

 

[Huss]

That's just a perspective effect – the lever is going away from the viewpoint of the camera taking the photo (assuming that these originate as photographs of actual cameras and are not CGI mockups). If you look at the lever from behind (from the same set of publicity photos) you'll see that it isn't tilted in the way you suggest.

Look at the collar just below the shutter button. It is canted to the left.

Mine are perfect in every way.
:angel:

 

[ChrisLivsey]

How many angels actually do fit on the head of a pin?

G

The maximal number of angels -- 8.6766*10exp49 at the critical angel mass (3.8807*10exp-34 kg).

BUT
(1) the angels must dance with speeds near the velocity of light in order to obey quantum mechanics;
(2) a full relativistic treatment is necessary; and
(3) that the precision of the dance must break down due to quantum effects.

Quantum Gravity Treatment of the Angel Density Problem
by Anders Sandberg
SANS/NADA, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

 

[ian_watts]

Look at the collar just below the shutter button. It is canted to the left.

Again, it's a perspective effect. The collar is partially hidden on the left as more of the lever comes into view (looked at from slightly underneath). Do you seriously think the advance lever is skew-whiff and not parallel with the top plate? This camera model uses the exact same bits from the parts bin they have been making the MP out of for 13 years – do you not think a wonky film advance lever would not have been flagged up by now?