If you want the most up-to-date Leica film camera, incorporating the same auto exposure you will find on the M10, then the choice is clear — it's the current Leica M7. But the pre-auto cameras with light metering, including the superseded M6 and the current MP, that seem to attract most followers. Why is this?
Where can you buy a brand new, unboxed Leica M6 TTL dating back to the early years of the century. Claus found out and managed to get his hands on what he considers to be the perfect example of Leica film-camera art.
Surely, many reasoned, without the screen and all those buttons it should have been possible to shave 4mm off the depth of the new screenless Leica M-D to bring it into line with the thickness of a typical Leica film camera.
After all the scurrying around London with Adam Lee and our M3, M7 and III cameras, I slotted a film into the lovely, mint-condition M6TTL I bought at a bargain price at last year’s Bièvres Camera Fair in France. The camera reminds just what a gem this version of the M6 has always been. In many ways I prefer it to my rather tatty (but tatty brassing is ok, right?) 2005 MP.
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