Studio58 Posted November 10, 2011 Share #1 Posted November 10, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) In my quest for an M6 I am faced with so many options. My M8 is black chrome which I love. My m9 is black paint... love that too. I would choose black paint for the M6 based on the wear factor. (1 worn black chrome is plenty). They tend to be limited edition high priced models though. Don't see that many titanium M6's and no doubt that is reflected in the fact that they were produced late in the run and in small numbers. Is there a downside to that finish ? Going price seems to be mid to high 2K. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cbretteville Posted November 10, 2011 Share #2 Posted November 10, 2011 Only you can answer that. Personally I'd opt for a black M6, but that is me. Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted November 10, 2011 Share #3 Posted November 10, 2011 I have seen some owners claim that the finish does not wear especially well, and it is -- I believe -- just a thin coating of titanium on a standard body. A few years ago the titanium M6 (pre-TTL) seemed to attract no premium value -- I almost bought one for GBP899.99 but it went before I could get it (probably just as well -- I didn't need it then and don't now). But in recent years the price has continued to creep up until now secondhand prices seem out of all proportion to the camera's utility or rarity. Other than a different colour it won't give you anything -- except a smaller bank balance -- that a standard body can't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio58 Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share #4 Posted November 10, 2011 Copy and paste from Photo.net. Author David Kernaghan Just stumbled across this thread, and there seems to be a lot of confusion and mis-information about the M6 Titanium. This is quite easy to understand as the Leica marketing department probably doesn't know either, if they did they did a terrible job of relaying it to potential buyers. So ironically they have turned the most durable finished Leica into a collectors item as there were not many sold. As a M6 Titanium owner and someone who also works in the aerospace industry, I can tell you the Solms engineering people did an excellent job on this product, its too bad the marketing guys dropped the ball. The Titanium finish as people call it is in fact Titanium Nitrite - TiN, You will find this at your local hardware store on all kinds of cutting tools (drills, blades etc.) and is the toughest finish known to man. Much tougher than pure Titanium metal, so while Titanium is used in the aerospace industry for it strength and light weight, TiN is also used in the aerospace industry to protect surfaces working under extreme conditions. TiN is vacuum deposited in a slow and expensive process, but the result is one of the best wearing surfaces known. On the M6 Titanium the top plate is brass, so if the camera is dropped the soft brass material will dent easily, however the wear resistance of the Titanium Nitrate finish is exceptional, - some people even think it looks nice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasw_ Posted November 10, 2011 Share #5 Posted November 10, 2011 That's interesting. I had been under the false impression that all standard M6 bodies had a zinc top plate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunghang Posted November 10, 2011 Share #6 Posted November 10, 2011 I can confirm that the M6T has brass top and bottom plates. That was the reason for paying the premium - and not because of the "titanium". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausen17 Posted November 10, 2011 Share #7 Posted November 10, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Have a Ti M6 and it is gorgeous. If you see one grab it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted November 10, 2011 Share #8 Posted November 10, 2011 Have a Ti M6 and it is gorgeous. If you see one grab it. I'm sure they'll ship to you Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio58 Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share #9 Posted November 10, 2011 nice camera though it has lenses which I do not need. After a mint body Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posto 6 Posted November 17, 2011 Share #10 Posted November 17, 2011 As a former Ti owner, I can confirm that the only two M6 models with a brass top plate were the Ti and the much more desirable M6J models (I still have mine). The finish and viewfinder on the latter make them a very serious competitor to an MP à la Carte- and you get all the extras thrown in which you can even sell if you do not wish to keep them, defraying the purchase price quite a bit. I used to have a black M6, which I dumped due to it getting horrible corrosion- a sort of Camera Pox- following a couple of years at my home overlooking Copacabana beach. The finish on the zinc models seems far inferior to that on the R7 and R8 models, with which I have had no problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_livsey Posted November 18, 2011 Share #11 Posted November 18, 2011 I'm sure they'll ship to youPete I was in today and that set is mint, no connection to seller other than they are a drain on my financial rescources Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio58 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share #12 Posted November 19, 2011 Well... went with what I love most. Millennium edition M6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulus Posted November 21, 2011 Share #13 Posted November 21, 2011 IMHO a better choice, The "Titan" lenses and M6 gave me much joy ( it's a wonderful sight piece of work! ). The finish wore off rather easily, perhaps due to the acid of my hands. Some people seem to have that. My wonderful 2/35mm asph lens lost bits of titan after half a year. I was allowed to trade it for a summilux apsh 50mm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio58 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share #14 Posted November 21, 2011 I wonder if that would happen to a black paint unit... (the reaction to your hands) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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