I love my MP3

[leicaoptik]

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Look at the thread and U will see and understand...

[leicaoptik]

A push up e.g. for Robert

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[jpattison]

Sorry for showing my ignorance (again). What exactly is an MP3 and how is it different from the MP?

 

Jimothy,

The MP3 has the window arrangement as the original M3.

The MP is more like the original MP, and M2. look at the surrounds around the windows, compare to the "I love my MP" thread.

 

Are there any "MP classic" users on the forum? ( modern MPs without the meter) that were for the Japanese market only? How many are out there?

 

John

[horosu]

Leicaoptik: only the lens is missing from the setup...

[peter_n]

From a kit perspective yes but the brass BP pre-ASPH is a tremendous all-round lens.

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I am very happy with my pre- asph lux in bp- brass.

If anyone here would like to swop it for the MP3 version bp- lux, would I...change?

I think not, as I do not like the hood on the asph.- one!

Philip

 

Leicaoptik: only the lens is missing from the setup...

[sepiareverb]

 

Here is my MP3, my most used daily camera, which I use at least four days a week. I got it from Rich Pinto in NY, the last one he had, (body only) in November of 2007.

 

I usually have a 50 on it, sometimes a 35, rarely a 90.

[peter_n]

Nice, Bob. That serial nr. is very close to mine!

I am very happy with my pre- asph lux in bp- brass. If anyone here would like to swop it for the MP3 version bp- lux, would I...change? I think not, as I do not like the hood on the asph.- one!

I use both and I've put 3rd party hoods from heavystar on both lenses. I can't stand the pull-out hood on the pre-ASPH nor the ridiculous hood that came on the LHSA ASPH.

[leicaoptik]

Hi Peter,

which lux do you like more?

When do you use which on?

Are the differences significant?

 

Is there already brassing on your MP3?

 

greetings from germany, Philip

 

Nice, Bob. That serial nr. is very close to mine!I use both and I've put 3rd party hoods from heavystar on both lenses. I can't stand the pull-out hood on the pre-ASPH nor the ridiculous hood that came on the LHSA ASPH.

[NB23]

I owned the pre-asph Black paint and liked it very much. Disliked the hood, though.

 

I now own the ASPH Black paint. Great lens. Rare and expensive, though. But I think it's worth is simply because it keeps its value over time.

[peter_n]

1) which lux do you like more?

2) When do you use which on?

3) Are the differences significant?

4) Is there already brassing on your MP3?

1) The pre-ASPH.

2) I use the pre-ASPH for people and as a general-purpose 50, and the ASPH for buildings and landscapes and other objects and scenery.

3) Not significant, but the ASPH is sharper across the whole field (at least to my eye) but I wouldn't describe the pre-ASPH as soft. Personally I prefer the look of the older lenses and I keep a set of older lenses alongside the ASPH lenses.

4) I just checked and the only brassing I can discern is on the serrated leading edge of the film winding lever. The MP3 seems to have a better paint job than my MP. This is mine:

[leicaoptik]

this one needs a push up...

[Stealth3kpl]

This is my all time favourite Leica. If someone would like to pass theirs on to my loving care, PM me.

Or if anyone knows of an MP3 Black Paint available, please PM me.

Pete

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Oh Lord, would you buy me a MP3!?

 

Fact is, it is like a white face among TLRs.

No, it tops it, it's THE real beauty.

 

Could have had one during the summer holiday of 2012. It had neither the matching LHSH lens nor the Leicavit. So probably having been sunstroke I thought: "There's a best offer button. Why don't I make one?" After the siesta it was gone.

 

Oh Lord...

[leicaoptik]

very classic

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This is my all time favourite Leica. If someone would like to pass theirs on to my loving care, PM me.

Or if anyone knows of an MP3 Black Paint available, please PM me.

Pete

 

December's the perfect time for finding a very rare camera. Some dealers offer these very special items only during this season. So looking at it this way, it's an opportunity imo.

Also being the first in one's camera club with a A7 is fine, because everybody there will gentlemanly refrain from reminding one about it, two years from now.

 

My new 2/35A LTM and matching 2/50LTM I got at the end of the summer holiday season and they found some use since then on the IIIg. Yes, it's nice to see the difference between the pictures taken with the latter and the ones taken with the spotless collapsible namessake, that came with the body.

Nice, but not awesome - give me another five years, I'd say.

 

So, would I buy the new LTM one again? No. (My excuse was, I didn't have a 2/50 before). Would I sell it then? I decline again, for now. Trade it in maybe. (I'll never sell the 2/35A though: that image quality from a camera my age, with the original Leica mount, abandoned more than 50 years ago and so good-looking - that's a keeper combination for me).

All I can say is, that it worries me to accept, that it is beyond denial, that I have become a collector. (Well, well... it's the birth year camera !)

 

But would I buy more than some rolls of film in December??

Why don't I - because I don't look out for high-end collectibles.

 

Cheers,

Simon

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[NB23]

this one needs a push up...

 

Since my last post I added a pre-asph bp 50 lux (millennium) to my collection