Re: Leica - starter camera


At 5:53 AM -0800 05.3.28, Phil McOrmond wrote:
Mark
Aperture priority (a la M7) would certainly be nice, as given my choice, I will usually shoot that way. But most of my Medium format cameras don't even have a meter so that is not the prime consideration.
Another thought, is that the group has often pointed out obvious Leica fakes (obvious to the group anyway). Was the M6 ever copied by non-Leica makers? I certainly would not be able to spot a fake at this point unless it was very obvious.

Only the Barnack leica screwmounts were copied. Many, many from British, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, and other companies.

None of the M series were copied in large quantities although there was one Chinese camera that people say was supposed to be a M camera, but I don't see the family resemblance.

So you can buy M cameras safely.

Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/


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