Help!!! Leica Film camera, which one to buy!!

[E. von Hoegh]

"a classic M3 (double stroke, of course)"

The definition of a classic M3 is single stroke of course...

Nope. Some don't even consider the single-stroke a real M3. I had two double stroke M3s, to this day, I double-stroke my Nikon F and Nikkormat, it got that firmly planted in my muscle memory.

 

[clayne]

Nope. Some don't even consider the single-stroke a real M3. I had two double stroke M3s, to this day, I double-stroke my Nikon F and Nikkormat, it got that firmly planted in my muscle memory.

Wow, both at the same time?

 

[jazz]

It's depend on your budget:
From Hi price to low " MP-M7-M6-M4P/M3...I skipped M5, sorry
M4P,M3,M2, no need battery but need hanheld metering

Good luck for your choice....

 

[daleeman]

Buy the first one you can lay your hands on. Now, Today!

It will not matter what model you buy because you will become infected with the Leica Zombie Virus and it will take over your entire mental ability to say NO. You will compelled to horde Leica after Leica from LTM to M's without meters to M's with meters.

Then wondering the streets as a full fledged Leica Zombie chewing on human flesh while documenting it on an M9.

There is no cure.

 

[LouisG]

I would go for a M4 or M2, but it doesn't really matter.

 

[cliveh]

For me the M2 with a 50mm 1.4 Summilux is the best machine in existance.

 

[Architeuthis]

+1
M3 or M2, the classics.

 

[thomasw_]

I own 4 non-metered Ms and use them all regularly: the M2/M3/M4/M4-P. Of these, I'd start with the M4-P because you can obtain them at a price point within your budget and they give you the versatility of all the framelines in the VF from 28 to 135. The earlier brass top models have the more accurate 50mm framelines that the later M6/M7/MP (not MP-3) don't have. The M4-P is a workhorse camera and I have grown to love mine.

 

[kivis]

Hi,

Thank you so much for all your advice, I would like to spend around $1000 and would use it to shoot street photography and landscape, I'm thinking a M3, any advice which is best?

The M3 is the holy grail of the M's. I was originally put off by it not having a meter. But I found it frees you.


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[kivis]

Nope. Some don't even consider the single-stroke a real M3. I had two double stroke M3s, to this day, I double-stroke my Nikon F and Nikkormat, it got that firmly planted in my muscle memory.

Why? I have a single stroke. It rocks.


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[Roger Hicks]

Not an M3 for me, (a) because I like 35mm and (b) I don't like the weird round corners on the 50mm frame on the M3. Nor an M5 because I just don't like it, though i now there are many M5 addicts. On price, M2. On features, MP. Otherwise, whatever comes up at the right price, in good working order.

You might find http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/leicaphilia.html useful, though it also mentions digital (you can always hold your nose and close one eye).

Cheers,

R.