No more GAS for me!

[IkarusJohn]

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[Edward Louis Marit]

How did you get a Monochrom with an engraved top plate John?

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[Manoleica]

After I showed the Post to "she who must be obeyed" her response:-

Yeah yeah yeah, heard it all b4.. I hear the new M-P260 Edition with red snakeskin and Kravitz body wear marks is to die for"" Never say Never:)

[IkarusJohn]

How did you get a Monochrom with an engraved top plate John?

 

I was one of a very few who persuaded Leica to do a silver M9P version of the Monochrom when it was first released.

[F.Juul]

Nice line up. It seems like the M60 has no strap lugs. How do you carry it when shooting?

BR

Flemming

[IkarusJohn]

In my hands, when I'm using it, in a camera bag when im not, and in its case when I want a strap.

[pgk]

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Shouldn't the title read "No more (camera body) GAS for me (until.....)"

 

Now what about lenses;).

[Mornnb]

Wait, the M60 has no hole for a shutter release cable? That's even worse than the missing LCD.

[Gibbo]

John, this thread will come back and bite you in the bum!

[honcho]

I'd flog a couple of those and buy a lens.....

[IkarusJohn]

I'm selling my 35 Summilux (don't need 2) and I will use the money for a 28 Summilux if it turns out to be as good as it appears to be. It's not a priority.

 

Lens choice and quality isn't a limitation. That selection is good for me. The M3 is really just a bit of history. With the other three, I have film (Tri-X), colour digital and fantastic B&W, each in a form and function that I really like. Couldn't be better.

[farnz]

Where's the M9-Ti?

 

Pete.

[menos I M6]

There is clearly A LOT of potential for continued GAS.

Just as a starter: no black paint gear at all? I mean: no black paint?

[A miller]

John - the M3 is the best of the bunch with a 50mm. Dont write it off to the history boooks just yet...

[IkarusJohn]

Black paint

 

Apart from lusting after a silver 28 Summilux (and selling my spare 35 Summilux to part fund it), I really have more than enough camera gear - put another way, having experimented with the D800E and A7r, I have all the camera gear I want. New gear coming available (apart from the 28 Summilux ) doesn't really affect how my current equipment works. For years, I shot what I like and want happily with an FM2 and two lenses - a mid range zoom (28-85mm?) and a tele (180mm). Perfect. Used them till they basically gave up the ghost (about 30 years?). With Leica, I have found that the range of 21 to 90 fits perfectly. If I had more, I wouldn't use it.

 

So, while this thread is a bit tongue in cheek (who the f**k needs 4 M cameras, 10 M mount lenses, a Leica T and an SWC? and how much did all that cost?), I really have nothing more than a passing academic interest in what Leica produces in future (my M-A purchase as a replacement for my M9P is surely an example of that). Even the benighted (by some) Leica T is fantastic - it takes very good pictures, and is useful when I'm riding my motorbike, hiking or otherwise in the outdoors wanting something small, AF and zoom, that will take M lenses for macro if I want it. I'm sure a better full frame Sony with mega MP would do way more, but the camera I have works just fine, thank you.

 

And, no. I'm not giving up on my M3, though I tend to use that with my Summitar 50/2 from 1948. It's compact, and somehow rewarding as a combination.

 

Cheers

John

[Peter H]

John, you're a gear-head. And you know it!

[Bill W]

How many of us have said "if I just had......" I would be set.....

[IkarusJohn]

John, you're a gear-head. And you know it!

 

 

 

When I got into Leica, I thought my M9 with a 35 $ 75 would do the job ... how wrong could you be.

[otto.f]

Very special!

I take it as very symbolic that the strap of the M3 embraces all the newer generation M's.

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[IkarusJohn]

Thanks Otto. The M60 and Monochrom have their own leather straps, so I put the braided ones on the film cameras.

 

Interesting that so much comment compares the M-A to the MP, where I see it more as an M3 with updated viewfinder and film loading system. Hence my fascination that they should be separated by 60 years. Nice, in a disposable world.