M6 Mini-Rant

Ben Z said:
This sounds scarily like a thread I'd expect to find on the Ph*to.n*t Leica Forum 😱
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As the author of 2107 posts at that site, it's no great surprise that you are very familiar with what one should expect to find on photo.net. 🙂
 
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Toby said:
People say M6 classic because it sounds better than M6 obsolete

yours in hire purchase

Toby
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I guess it's the same idea behind saying the "Nikon FM obsolete" or the "Leica R4 obsolete" or "Canon 10D obsolete", and so on...saves the salespeople a lot of breath.
 
When I had one to test, it was clearly marked "M6". Good enough for me.

A lot of collectors resent the term "Nikon F Apollo" and prefer to call it "Nikon F with F2 cosmetics". I found a 1976 article in Pop Photo describing the development of the newer style film advance lever for the Apollo program, and a Nikon article also describing the advance lever for Apollo. So the name had a real root, and the changes were an outgrowth of the version of the camera that flew on the Apollo mission. I doubt the advance lever on the "actual" Apollo camera used any plastic, but used a sculpted metal advance tip like on the pre-production Nikon F2's.
 
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richard_l said:
As the author of 2107 posts at that site, it's no great surprise that you are very familiar with what one should expect to find on photo.net. 🙂
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Mea culpa. But I do participate in several forums, not just the Leica one. Fortunately the rest of them aren't that untamed.
 
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richard you want to know why people still refer to M6 as M6 classic? Read the MP description here:

http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/leica.htm

Notice how he doesn't refer to it as the M6TTL?
The fact of the matter is, people don't consider the M6 and M6TTL as totally different models, even though technicaly, it "probably" is. However, the difference between the two models is much less than say between the M6 Classic and M7. Referring to it as M6 Classic is just a smart and responsible way of portraying the camera you have.
 
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Well I use both M6 and M6TTL. Generally I prefer to refer to them as M cameras. I have always felt I was "putting on the dog" if I started quoting model #'s ans serial #'s or whatever.

In another place where I post, it asked that the exact camera and lens designation be stated with picture exhibited. Actually, there is a spefic reason for that, but normally I find it a trial to constantly quote statistics.

Shootin' with a 'blad or M is good enough for me. Extra info will not further help me enjoy the image.
 
Everytime when I think it's about time to buy my first M I look for the M6. Not the TTL as I wouldn't use it with a flash anyways but with a CLA and a finder update in my mind.
Often I find one around the 1200 Euro I could spend and then I see the price for a 35 'cron and I´m back on earth 🙂

So calling the M6 without TTL M6 classic is ok with me, it is a classic! In my eyes it is the culmination of the original M idea, short of the MP which is far out of my reach.
 
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ywenz said:
richard you want to know why people still refer to M6 as M6 classic? Read the MP description here:

http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/leica.htm

Notice how he doesn't refer to it as the M6TTL?
The fact of the matter is, people don't consider the M6 and M6TTL as totally different models, even though technicaly, it "probably" is. However, the difference between the two models is much less than say between the M6 Classic and M7. Referring to it as M6 Classic is just a smart and responsible way of portraying the camera you have.
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That's just sloppy thinking and writing. (I'm referring to the information at the Robert White site, not your post.) The plain vanilla M6 is functionally more similar to the MP than to the M6 TTL. In fact, a better name for the MP might have been the M6 Classic, but I'm glad they didn't name it that, because then people would have started calling the plain vanilla M6 the M6 non-classic, which doesn't sound good.
 
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richard_l said:
That's just sloppy thinking and writing. The plain vanilla M6 is functionally more similar to the MP than to the M6 TTL. In fact, a better name for the MP might have been the M6 Classic, but I'm glad they didn't name it that, because then people would have started calling the plain vanilla M6 the M6 non-classic, which doesn't sound good.
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We know you like your virgin M6, but the personal attack is just icing on the cake 🙂

Here's to wishing me good luck with checking out the M6 classic I might be buying this weekend. The guy said his M6 classic is in mint condition.
 
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ywenz said:
We know you like your virgin M6, but the personal attack is just icing on the cake 🙂
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That wasn't a personal attack on you. I was referring to what I read at http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/leica.htm. There is no excuse in treating the M6 and M6 TTL as if they are the same camera. (I went back and fixed my post so people won't think I'm a nasty old flame thrower. Sorry about the misunderstanding.)

Here's to wishing me good luck with checking out the M6 classic I might be buying this weekend. The guy said his M6 classic is in mint condition.
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Good luck!
 
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Serious question: Is the M6ttl as physically rugged as its brainless counterparts (M6et al)?

Is it more or less rugged (thinking here of electronics and rangefinder) than CV R2/3?

...see, I have two Canon Ps and I want something more feminine, but not much less rugged...
 
some say that the m4 is is last best camera that leica made.

i don't know these things myself - just from what i read.

but now that you mention it...the p is kinda rugged while those leicas are somewhat girlie...🙂😉

joe
 
Djon, why do you think the M6TTL has more brains than the M6 and earlier models? Answer that, and I'll give my 2¢ worth on its relative wimpiness or non-wimpiness.
 
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