I will love to see on the M6:

- A separate On-/Off-switch around the shutter release.

- ISO film speed setting automatically through DX code.

- Coated viewfinder windows.

- Brightness of the LED controlled according to ambient light.

;-)

-- Lucien (Lucien_vd@yahoo.fr), March 22, 2002

Answers

Lucien, I am baffled by your post here. Why are you doing this? Leica has just released the M7, due to requests such as this. Why don't you buy an M7? Surely you don't expect or even hope Leica will include these changes on a newer M6-P?

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), March 22, 2002.

Rip van Lucien just woke up after sleeping 20 years. Ah, bliss. Or perhaps it's something else. Oh dear!... Odd how this forum slips in & out of reality on occasion.

-- Patrick (pg@patrickgarner.com), March 22, 2002.

Kristian,

I have a M7 since 3 weeks now, and because I have found those improvements so useful, I want to see them on the M6.

It will be logical for Leica to standardized the production. The M6TTL was already made with the M7 chassis since several months.

And by the way, Kristian, there was a smiley at the end of my post.

Relax....

;-)

-- Lucien (Lucien_vd@yahoo.fr), March 22, 2002.

Sorry , to standarize.

And yes, I expect to see a improved M6.

-- Lucien (Lucien_vd@yahoo.fr), March 22, 2002.

Sorry, Lucien, the M6 is history. Enjoy your M7.

-- Bob Haight (rhaigh5748@aol.com), March 22, 2002.

Lucien,

Allow me to add to your list. Not necessarily for the M6 as I've noted in previous posts I don't expect it to be around for too long, other than in NOS status.

I'd like to see some version of infrared "focus confirmation" made available for low light (and my ever aging eyes). That would be nice. They might even be able to do it by putting that Red Dot to practical use!

Best,

Jerry

-- Jerome R. Pfile, Jr. (JerryPfile@msn.com), March 22, 2002.

Bob,

Only time will tell...

-- Lucien (Lucien_vd@yahoo.fr), March 22, 2002.

Lucien and I can dream, can't we? Is that not permitted?

-- Dave Jenkins (djphoto@vol.com), March 22, 2002.

I am with Lucien, specialy if they are making most of this improvements on newer M7, but wath I guess is that M6 is not produced any more, and what they are offering is stock bodies, so that make Lucien and many (including me) dreams an utopy.

What is up to be is on-off battery cover by T Abrahamson.

-- r watson (a1231234@hotmail.com), March 22, 2002.

As they could find space for another batteries; how about additional self timer?

An improved M6 will have enough advantage to be exist in line with M7.

Cheers,

-- Andy (andywijono@hotmail.com), March 22, 2002.

Actually I talked with a Leica rep about 3 hours ago and she said Leica expects to sell equal numbers of M6s and M7s in the US this year - and (quote) "We aren't going to discontinue the all-mechanical body. If we did the company would be gone in 3 years."

She had an M7 with her - but that's a different thread. 8^)

It would not surprise me to see some M7 features show up in M6's eventually - probably without any ".2" or other separate model designation. Just as M6 flush windows showed up in M4-Ps - it's easier and cheaper to build them as much the same as possible than otherwise. I'd expect the bayonet battery cover to show up - and MAYBE even the double-battery loading (since battery longevity has been something of an M6 issue) if they can stick in a voltage reducer for compatability with M6 circuitry that runs on 3 volts instead of 6. Also most of the other things Lucien mentions.

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), March 22, 2002.

I have to agree, the M6TTL is history. Producing both just makes no sense, and the cost difference is really to support the sale of the NOS bodies. Once the inventory is gone, oh, in about a year, they will announce the discontinuation, my guess. As to whether Leica will be in business in three years or not, I doubt the M6TTL will have anything to do with that at all.

-- Chris Henry (henryjc@concentric.net), March 22, 2002.

Now I know you have a M7, it's all understood. I am relaxed. i wasn't giving you shit. Just surprised about your post :)

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), March 22, 2002.