I love my M4

[giganova]

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Loving my "new" M4 and Summaron, too. What a mechanical engineering marvel!

 

[otto.f]

This is the set that started my Leica relation, along with a Hector 90mm. Beautiful! and a record in design and esthetics that has never been beaten afterwards. 

What striked me the most immediately in comparison to Nikon, was that dodging shadows in printing was possible to a high degree without loosing contrast in the darker areas

Edited March 27, 2016 by otto.f

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[Riccis]

I have been using this setup for a bit... Heavy but quite nice.

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[otto.f]

Heavy? About the most lightweight M there is

[MarkP]

I have been using this setup for a bit... Heavy but quite nice.

 

What were you using before, an instamatic?

 

Nice camera btw

[Matlock]

Heavy? About the most lightweight M there is

 

Not quite. Aside from the M5, the M4 is second in weight only to the M7:

M7     610g

M4     600g

M3     595g

MP     585g

M2     580g

M-A   578g

M6     560g

M4-P 545g

M4-2  525g

M1     545g

 

The M5 is a hefty 700g

[Matlock]

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What were you using before, an instamatic?

 

Nice camera btw

 

I have a Kodak Instamatic Reflex which is about 30g more than the M4

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[Riccis]

Lol... Solid is more like it...

[Riccis]

I have a question on my M4 that always intrigued me... Shouldn't it have framelines like an M6? Mine only has 35, 50 and 90 (which I love, btw) but the camera still has the L seal (or whatever it's called) intact which implies the framelines have not been changed on it.

[bruniroquai]

nop, those came with M4-P onwards.

[pico]

10 grams is the ~weight of three UK pennys. I can handle that.

[NB23]

Met a crazy friend at a cafe, he brought his cameras. People on the street were going crazy asking us if we we're selling them. I said yes, one hundred bucks. You should have seen the guy's face.

 

2x M4, M2, MP, M7 

 

 

[rpavich]

Met a crazy friend at a cafe, he brought his cameras. People on the street were going crazy asking us if we we're selling them. I said yes, one hundred bucks. You should have seen the guy's face.

 

2x M4, M2, MP, M7

Holy crap those are nice!

 

The M2 and M4 make my legs weak....they are beautiful.

[giganova]

Someone likes black! 

[NB23]

I like black so much that I even strip down the shutter rings down to Brass and paint them black.

[colint544]

One more of my 1974 M4 in black chrome, but with the current black chrome 50mm Summilux ASPH. It's like they were made for each other.

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Edited April 22, 2016 by colint544

[CSG123]

Late 1966 Leica M4 with 1957 DR Summicron and Kameraleder half case by CSG_Photography, on Flickr

 

Bought this as a 60th birthday present to myself a few years ago.  The M4 is from the first batch of 3000 and the '57 5cm Summicron was purchased from Sherry Krauter.  Lovely camera but I don't use it often (or my other film cameras) having been taken in by digital.

[Allicio]

I've just ordered a mint condition boxed m4 body for £899. Couldn't make my mind up between this and a mint M6 ttl .85 which admittedly was more money but is obviously newer. I liked the idea of the old school meter less leica with the older style construction. I'm still shitting myself I've made the right decision though ha!!

Edited June 8, 2016 by Allicio

[rpavich]

I've just ordered a mint condition boxed m4 body for £899. Couldn't make my mind up between this and a mint M6 ttl .85 which admittedly was more money but is obviously newer. I liked the idea of the old school meter less leica with the older style construction. I'm still sitting myself I've made the right decision though ha!!

 

Awesome! 

 

You made a good choice...no worries for sure.

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[spydrxx]

You can't go wrong with an M4 IMHO