M9reno Posted October 28, 2022 Share #1481 Posted October 28, 2022 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm still wondering if, like the original M6 Classic, the new M6 accepts IXMOO cassettes. No one seems to know yet. But I bet that, just like its M7, MP and M-A older brethren, it does not.... Edited October 28, 2022 by M9reno Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 28, 2022 Posted October 28, 2022 Hi M9reno, Take a look here New Leica M6 Film Camera. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
logan2z Posted October 28, 2022 Share #1482 Posted October 28, 2022 5 hours ago, Al Brown said: Direction yes, but what about arrow sync, that's the topic... ( I do not own the MP, just quoting the guy). Similar conversation going on in another thread. I posted info from the new M6 manual (downloadable from the Leica web site) here: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madNbad Posted October 28, 2022 Share #1483 Posted October 28, 2022 1 hour ago, M9reno said: I'm still wondering if, like the original M6 Classic, the new M6 accepts IXMOO cassettes. No one seems to know yet. But I bet that, just like its M7, MP and M-A older brethren, it does not.... No. The early M6s baseplate was still manufactured with the key to open the IXMOO but eventually it was dropped. There are changes to the MP body shell and the older baseplates are not interchangeable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Dulu Posted October 28, 2022 Share #1484 Posted October 28, 2022 I have an early model Wetzlar M6. It’s always bugged me that it’s a zinc top, prone to bubbling. Always preferred the brassing on black paint Leicas. If mine starts bubbling, I wonder if I can swap out the top plates? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock Posted October 28, 2022 Share #1485 Posted October 28, 2022 53 minutes ago, Homer Dulu said: I have an early model Wetzlar M6. It’s always bugged me that it’s a zinc top, prone to bubbling. Always preferred the brassing on black paint Leicas. If mine starts bubbling, I wonder if I can swap out the top plates? If it hasn't bubbled by now it never will. Bubbling is rare in spite of what you may read on this forum and is a result of poor casting or plating in the initial process. When it does occur it shows up fairly soon. However it can occur if the top plate plating is badly damaged which could allow moisture to attack the zinc so usual care is recommended. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrogallol Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1486 Posted October 29, 2022 You would have thought they would have given it a new name, M6-2, like they did with the M4-2. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikep996 Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1487 Posted October 29, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well, with all the internet buzz that the M6 has been receiving over the last couple of years, it would not have been a good marketing decision to have anything BUT "Leica M6" on the front of the camera. Otherwise, all the new M6 Wanna-be owners would purchase used M6's so they have a "real M6." This way Leica can sell them a "Real M6," instead of someone else (and Ebay) sharing the profit. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan2z Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1488 Posted October 29, 2022 17 minutes ago, Mikep996 said: Well, with all the internet buzz that the M6 has been receiving over the last couple of years, it would not have been a good marketing decision to have anything BUT "Leica M6" on the front of the camera. Otherwise, all the new M6 Wanna-be owners would purchase used M6's so they have a "real M6." This way Leica can sell them a "Real M6," instead of someone else (and Ebay) sharing the profit. I still wonder how many M6 wannabe owners are going to pay $5295 for a new 'real' M6 or half that on a used 'real' M6. I guess time will tell. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1489 Posted October 29, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Pyrogallol said: You would have thought they would have given it a new name, M6-2, like they did with the M4-2. That’s what we in the forum mostly do: - Summicron 35 iv , or pre-asph, or king of bokeh or v4 - Leica M9M, or Monochrom1, Monochrome1 - etc. Voigtlander does this quite systematically by adding ii, see the Ultrons 28 and 35. So an M6 ii would do I think Edited October 29, 2022 by otto.f Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huss Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1490 Posted October 29, 2022 2 hours ago, logan2z said: I still wonder how many M6 wannabe owners are going to pay $5295 for a new 'real' M6 or half that on a used 'real' M6. I guess time will tell. All those who can afford to. One is 40 years old, one is brand new and improved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huss Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1491 Posted October 29, 2022 Ok, we are on 78 pages. Any chance of making it to 100 before someone actually gets a new M6 in their hands that belongs to them? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danner Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1492 Posted October 29, 2022 Proposed shorthand names: M6c for M6 Classic M6r for M6 Reissue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan2z Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1493 Posted October 29, 2022 51 minutes ago, Huss said: All those who can afford to. One is 40 years old, one is brand new and improved. Yup. I'd personally opt for the new one. I've got enough 40+ year old cameras to look after Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1494 Posted October 29, 2022 5 minutes ago, Danner said: Proposed shorthand names: M6c for M6 Classic M6r for M6 Reissue My proposal would be: M6 for M6 old MP-6 for M6 Reissue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1495 Posted October 29, 2022 Making M6 once again makes sense. It is the statement of what Leica’s canon is. A line from M3, M2, M4, M4-2, M4-P, M6, MP and M6 once again. Sorry folks, M5, M6 TTL and M7 were attempts to break from canon. They failed and they are left out of analog M history. Leica definitive M line up in 2022 is one year old M11 and 38 years old M6. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1496 Posted October 29, 2022 40 minutes ago, nicci78 said: Making M6 once again makes sense. It is the statement of what Leica’s canon is. A line from M3, M2, M4, M4-2, M4-P, M6, MP and M6 once again. Sorry folks, M5, M6 TTL and M7 were attempts to break from canon. They failed and they are left out of analog M history. Leica definitive M line up in 2022 is one year old M11 and 38 years old M6. What a load of nonsense. Leica’s return to its historical base is the Mp & M-A. For my money, the “new” M6 is just pastiche. Having aperture priority as an additional mode is a trick Leica has missed, in my view. Adding that to the MP would have rounded out the film M cameras nicely. I see the M11 as another potential conceptual blind alley, like the M(240). But then we all differ, and that’s a good thing. I’ll watch the M11 variants, and the M12, with remote interest. I’ll flog my SL, TL2, Monochrom and M10-D til they die, then I’ll probably just stick to film. I don’t see the digital M heading in a direction which is either consistent with the traditional M paradigm, and it is not an itch I wish to scratch. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huss Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1497 Posted October 29, 2022 42 minutes ago, nicci78 said: Making M6 once again makes sense. It is the statement of what Leica’s canon is. A line from M3, M2, M4, M4-2, M4-P, M6, MP and M6 once again. Sorry folks, M5, M6 TTL and M7 were attempts to break from canon. They failed and they are left out of analog M history. Leica definitive M line up in 2022 is one year old M11 and 38 years old M6. You do know that the fact you are mentioning the M5, M6ttl and M7 means they are part of Leica analog history, right? And how can the definitive line up include a 38 year old camera when Leica has just released a much improved version of it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madNbad Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1498 Posted October 29, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, UliWer said: My proposal would be: M6 for M6 old MP-6 for M6 Reissue. I’m sticking with the Millennial edition. Edited October 29, 2022 by madNbad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raizans Posted October 29, 2022 Share #1499 Posted October 29, 2022 I'm going with M6 MkII, because Mk anything is cool. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huss Posted October 30, 2022 Share #1500 Posted October 30, 2022 56 minutes ago, raizans said: I'm going with M6 MkII, because Mk anything is cool. It is a Mk0 if your light meter fails. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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