colint544

Great idea for a thread. The Summaron 2.8 is a fantastic lens. Here's one made using my 1960 copy on an M11 last weekend. It's from the edge of the Lidl carpark at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, close to dusk.

Very useful, thank you. I gave up on AWB with the M11 a couple of years ago, and just permanently left it on daylight 5500K. Will maybe try AWB again, see if things are better now. Would have been preferable if this workaround wasn't required, and a more accurate colour balance was baked into the sensor. But fair play to Leica for at least addressing the issue.

Thanks for the helpful reply. Looks - anecdotally anyway - as though Leica are likely still using that same part. Partly I asked the question because I saw that the pope's special Leica M-A is going to be auctioned. It's thought it could sell for 80,000 EUR+, and I wondered if it too had that glued plastic frame counter. The other part of the reason I asked such a trivial question, of course, was to see just how petty, scolding, and unhelpful some of the replies might be. I've not been disappointed!

It matters enough for you to respond straight out of the traps, without reading the post, and answering a question I didn't ask. If you've been using an M6 for 40 years, yours will be an early camera, not one from the nineties, so you would never experience the issue.

Cheers for the reply. Interesting, and a bit disappointing, if they're still using the part. I think it's a plastic gear wheel, with the frame counter glued on top. My friend had a mid-nineties M6, and his frame counter failed. I had a 1984 version, built before Leica cut that particular corner, and that camera is still going strong, albeit the meter doesn't work any more.

Does anyone know whether the frame counter mechanism on any of the current Leica film cameras still has the plastic part of the 90's M6 which could fail? Or have Leica remedied this?

I had a staff job at a newspaper for seven years. This card was my workhorse that entire time. It was originally in a Canon EOS 5D mk2, then was transferred to an EOS 1DX. I formatted that card multiple times a day for those seven years. Hundreds of pictures per day. I shot jpegs for the newspaper, and TIFF files for the weekend magazine. Freelanced for four years after I left the paper. Continued using this card. I rarely do paid photography work these days, but if I do, I still use this card. I know cards can corrupt or fail, but this one has never let me down.

I skipped the last couple of firmware upgrades mainly because my M11 was performing faultlessly. But there was also some talk on here - if I remember rightly - about unnecessary EU red tape affecting the battery, or the battery display or something. Anyway, decided I should probably just get this 2.5.1 firmware. Installed it a couple of days ago, all seems fine, camera operating smoothly and reliably, as before. Good job, very happy with my M11 now.

Wild if it turns out that the ring is simply glued in place, and that's the way the lens was designed. Das Wesentliche, as they say.

Some derelict land in the north of Glasgow, on an M11 and 35mm Summilux 35 FLE mk1

Totally, just a few mm in height, you wouldn't think it makes a difference. Same when I switch from M11 to M2, if I'm gripping the camera holding the top and bottom, the M2 just fits that little bit better in the hand.

This is a great thread. I'm still using my M9 Monochrom. That thing feels bomb proof, it just goes, every time. It did develop sensor corrosion, but Leica fixed that, and zero issues since. I've taken a lot of pictures with it, and looking through them, they seem closer to the look of film than any other digital camera I've used. As much as people say the M10 is the sweet spot in M digital cameras, I wonder if the M12 is going to be the one which claims that title. Leica have nearly 20 years experience of digital Ms now, and they do listen to the feedback they get. If they can make the M12 3mm shorter - and I bet they do - it will be back to the precise dimensions of a classic Wetzlar M. I bet they also simplify it, so no triple resolution sensor, and an even more pared down interface. Perhaps, finally, a screen which doesn't protrude from the back of the camera. And if they manage to squeeze in an image stabiliser - again I bet they do - that will open up a whole new world. I can see a brass and black paint M12 being extremely covetable, not to mention, a superb picture making machine.

I've not tried making M11 images black and white, just because the M9M is so close to analogue black and white. If I were starting now, with just the M9M, and wanted a colour M, I'd consider an M10R.

I think there might be a thread about it on here somewhere, I'm far from the only one to have this trouble. The outer barrel is attached to the inner barrel by three microscopic screws which, however carefully you handle the lens, always seem to work loose.