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I love my M3 :-)


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I just got this: Late M3, great condition. Both lens & body were purchased in 1966 and share the same warranty card. Operation feels like a brand new camera and even the IROOA looks new. :)

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Awsome!!! Hardly any lightmeter traces...

Congrats!

Norbert

 

I have no clue how people manage to get these scratches on the top cover. Both Leicameters I have are padded or have a plastics ground plate. Assuming the usual caution when handling precision tools, there shouldn't be a chance to dent it.

 

But then the bottom cover plate of my M3 looks horrible, lots of circular scratches - someone must have cranked the camera heavily on a tripod during it's life. Obviously thought an M3 is handled like a wrench...

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Thinking about it, it can be helpful to wipe the Leicameter and top cap before mounting it. My iPod never left its leather cover since 2005, when I took it out recently, I discovered the metal back has lots of scratches. I assume some dust gets caught between the cover and metal and starts to grind by movements between iPod and cover.

 

No chance to sell it as a collector's piece in 20 years then ;)

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Congratulatons :)

 

There is something very special about an M3 - the machine who does its job over decades and is still fully useable today.

 

I also don't understand why I barely use my M6 and M7 after the purchase of my M3. Maybe because 95% of my shots are B&W... Perhaps the outside attention I get when it hangs on my neck in a Leather Eveready Case. OMG!!! I'm supposed to be going digital when I'm even going backwards on this batteryless and meterless camera "that's as old as I am"... and possibly out live me.

 

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-Ron

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