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8 hours ago, Graham (G4FUJ) said:

Actually, after a search mine is posted (#242) in the original M4-P thread.  This thread is a second to one already running!

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/56943-i-love-my-m4-p/page/13/#comment-4200546

 

Hello Graham,

It would be nice if 1 of the Moderators could "tack" this Thread onto your Thread from before so that this could become a continuation of that 1. That way people interested in M4-P's could read about & see more of them.

Best Regards,

Michael

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Thought I'd introduce this little puppy. Feeling the urge to shoot some film for the first time this century my chum @pippy pointed me in the direction of this. Having shot professionally with a trio of M6, M4-P and M4-2 back in the 80's & 90's it was like riding a bike, amazing how the muscle memory remains. Couldn't run to the KoB 35 I had back in the day but I'm actually loving the Summaron. Thin T-E 90 and a ZM 50 lurking in the background for standard and long duties.  I've always been a user rather than a collector but it seems this is actually quite an interesting body, chrome but not an anniversary model and a flush window. Serial no dates places it around 1984 so I'm guessing its fitted with the M6 style finder. Anyway, details like that apart, I'm having a great time with it and hope to start adding a few images in the relevant threads.

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25 minutes ago, a.noctilux said:

@Mike S nice looking M4-P.

out of curiosity,

are the framelines inside M6 style ?

or M4-P style with complete bottom 35 line ?

Thank you. Complete 35mm bottom. With apologies for the view.

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15 hours ago, Mike S said:

Thought I'd introduce this little puppy. Feeling the urge to shoot some film for the first time this century my chum @pippy pointed me in the direction of this. Having shot professionally with a trio of M6, M4-P and M4-2 back in the 80's & 90's it was like riding a bike, amazing how the muscle memory remains. Couldn't run to the KoB 35 I had back in the day but I'm actually loving the Summaron. Thin T-E 90 and a ZM 50 lurking in the background for standard and long duties.  I've always been a user rather than a collector but it seems this is actually quite an interesting body, chrome but not an anniversary model and a flush window. Serial no dates places it around 1984 so I'm guessing its fitted with the M6 style finder. Anyway, details like that apart, I'm having a great time with it and hope to start adding a few images in the relevant threads.

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I have a silver, non-anniversary M4-P, too.  Yours is the only other one I’ve seen.  As I understand it, only hundreds were made.  Mine is in great condition, as it appears yours is.  Mine also has a recent DAG service so is ready to go the long run.  I’ve been using digital more lately; time to get some film into mine.  Will probably pair it with my contemporary 35mm Summilux pre-ASPH or 50mm v.3 Summicron.

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I forgot that the 135 framelines are less visible inside 35 with M4-P.

For a while that I don't use one, I just took one out to appreciate feeling the real vulcanite * 🙂.

Maybe I'll use M4-P more these days.

* I think M4-P was the last Leica M with real vulcanite, ending since 1984.

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Love it 

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Hi everyone!

I also recently bought a Leica M4-P.

It is paired with a Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm lens and i have a doubt...

The frame in the viewfinder doesn't change by itself, but i have to do it manually by moving the frame selector. I have seen in some videos that with Leica lenses the frame is set automatically.

Is everything normal or does my m4p have problems? Thank you all!

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7 hours ago, giofre said:

Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm lens

Is this lens M mount ?

If its VM type, this would select automatically the 35mm framelines along with 135mm field (35+135 pair).

If the lens is screwmount + M adapter, the M adapter is to be replaced.

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1 hour ago, a.noctilux said:

Is this lens M mount ?

If its VM type, this would select automatically the 35mm framelines along with 135mm field (35+135 pair).

If the lens is screwmount + M adapter, the M adapter is to be replaced.

Yes the lens is VM type but the frame is not automatically selected...

I have seen some videos of leica m4p with this lens mounted and it seems that the selector remains stuck on the 28mm even on those...

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1 hour ago, giofre said:

I was completely wrong. I confused the 35mm frame with 28mm. Everything is OK! Thank you!

Good then.

Just to add that M4-P was the first M to show 3 pairs of framelines, 28+90, 35+135, confusing 50+75 this first bothered me but I learned to see the 75 brackets as framing aids with 50mm lenses, to center OR not my framings.

 

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