The ultimate camera
22/01/09 13:33 Filed in: Photography
This is the ultimate camera. At least for me.
It’s a Leica M6 and I love it. It is analog, rangefinder and leica. Mechanically superior, smooth, reliable and quiet. Very sturdy and quite compact and I got it for quite a good price. Here it is shown with the summicron 40/2 I got with my CL. Now I want a 90/2.0 APO summicron asph, but that is very expensive, so now I have an elmar 90/4 and a Jupiter 90/2 for which I have to get a LTM adapter.
The M6 is very nice and the most important reason I wanted to get one besides my LC is the better optical base so that I can use a 90/2, which the rangefinder of the LC is not accurate enough for. Hoewever, there are a few things the LC is better at: the LC seems to be a bit quieter, the shutterwheel is a lot nicer, you see the shutterspeed in your viewfinder and it is smaller.
The M6 is mechanically much better, has a better optical base and filmloading is a lot easier.
There is one issue which is solvable, and that is flare problems. When you take a picture with a lot of backlight, the rangefinder flares up, making it impossible to focus. Will have it fixed with CLA service.
Anyway, I shot a lot of photos with it, see www.christiantan.com, from january 2009.
It’s a Leica M6 and I love it. It is analog, rangefinder and leica. Mechanically superior, smooth, reliable and quiet. Very sturdy and quite compact and I got it for quite a good price. Here it is shown with the summicron 40/2 I got with my CL. Now I want a 90/2.0 APO summicron asph, but that is very expensive, so now I have an elmar 90/4 and a Jupiter 90/2 for which I have to get a LTM adapter.
The M6 is very nice and the most important reason I wanted to get one besides my LC is the better optical base so that I can use a 90/2, which the rangefinder of the LC is not accurate enough for. Hoewever, there are a few things the LC is better at: the LC seems to be a bit quieter, the shutterwheel is a lot nicer, you see the shutterspeed in your viewfinder and it is smaller.
The M6 is mechanically much better, has a better optical base and filmloading is a lot easier.
There is one issue which is solvable, and that is flare problems. When you take a picture with a lot of backlight, the rangefinder flares up, making it impossible to focus. Will have it fixed with CLA service.
Anyway, I shot a lot of photos with it, see www.christiantan.com, from january 2009.
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