I KNOW, BUT I LOVE ALL MY LEICA'S

[edstock]

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I have seen topics of love for this or that Leica so I thought I'd throw my 2 cents. I love 'em and enjoy using any of my four M's. Each model is different and therefore unique. To hold a Leica M is an experience unlike the digital Japanese makes. The weight of my M2, being of metal, provides me with a sense of precision and extreme detail in manufacturing. I have an MR meter mounted atop. The M4-P also sports a MR light meter, my M6 and M7 are great. I have several Canon film and digital, as well as two Nikon film cameras, and two Leica R series bodies.

[LocalHero1953]

I also have four film Leicas, but only one M: M4, iif, II(D) and Standard, and I enjoy all of them (I don't love them - I only love things that can fondle me back). At present they are all used with different films: the M4 with Portra, because it seems wrong to put such a modern film in a Barnack; Delta 3200 in the II(D) + 28mm lens, because after dark exposure and focusing are guesswork anyway; Delta 400 in the Standard + 35mm because that's the camera, film and FL I use most, and I have a dozen IXMOOs loaded for it; that leaves XP, which I'm trying out, in the iif. 

[a.noctilux]

Your title is LOUD.

they are just lovely tools which can produce good images, if my skill allows.

[ianman]

8 hours ago, edstock said:

To hold a Leica M is an experience unlike the digital Japanese makes. The weight of my M2, being of metal, provides me with a sense of precision and extreme detail in manufacturing.

As we are in the film section I suppose it’s ok to speak about Japanese film cameras instead of digital? Though my Japanese made FM2 is 10gr heavier than my M4-P I don’t get any sense of it being much more precisely built but tbh I haven’t checked the extreme detail. As far as holding them, being very similar in size and weight I really couldn’t tell if one is “better” than the other. What I do prefer about the M is what now makes them unique.

[kivis]

What is a Standard, Paul?

[Pyrogallol]

39 minutes ago, kivis said:

What is a Standard, Paul?

See https://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-wiki.en/index.php/Leica_Standard_(model_E)