Michael Reichmann has posted an M6 review on his site, Luminous Landscape. I wouldn't normally bother posting notice of a review but I like his site very much. Along with this one, it's one of the few web sites I look at each morning.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com (scroll down to the "Selected Highlights" section)

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-- Fergus Hammond (fhammond@adobe.com), June 25, 2001

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Great site Fergus; thanks!

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), June 25, 2001.

Nice essay, great site! I've bookmarked it for future ref.

Thanks for the tip, Fergus

-- Steve Hoffman (shoffman2@socal.rr.com), June 25, 2001.

Thanks for the lead--nice web site and good reading. Not really a review of the M6 as much as a review of the Leica M camera in general. Although I already agree with most everything he's describing, I still enjoyed reading his experiences. Pretty funny the story about the collectable cameras in Japan in shrink wrap that never gets removed.

I just lost the first tiny piece of body leather on my super clean M3 that I actually do use often. I was sad for about 5 seconds, and then realized "what the heck, its only a camera". If you use them, even carefully, they will eventually show signs of use and decrease their resale value. This means nothing of course, unless you plan on selling the camera. I enjoy shooting with the M3 and won't be selling it unless it gets to the point where I can not see anymore to focus, or there is no more film made for 35mm cameras.

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), June 25, 2001.

Yes, Andrew, that "shrink wrap" thing that the Japanese collector was in to is weird. Nothing wrong with being a Leica collector, but how does one "exercise" the shutter or anything, or God-forbid, actually squeeze off a few once a year with gloves on? :^}

Is this what most hard-core Leica collectors do? And if they buy a new M6 or an M lens, the shrink wrap never comes off? What's the point?

I've seen those food "dehydration wrap" machines on late night infomercials. Maybe they have adapted them to shrink wrap cameras too...

-- Steve Hoffman (shoffman2@socal.rr.com), June 25, 2001.

I don't think people are going too crazy with regular production M6's, (which have not become collectable yet in over the 17 year history) but you can be sure very few of the M6 limited edition cameras ever see a roll of film though them-or absolutely mint IIIG, M4, M3 black paint. etc. When is a camera not a camera anymore?

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), June 25, 2001.

Andrew: I guess a camera is not a camera any more when it doesn't or couldn't get used to make pictures any more. The weird thing is that both situations could happen to be the same. . . Luminous Landscape is great, I agree. Regards. - Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), June 25, 2001.

I had a dream (where have I heard that?); in wich I was taken into the future, the citys were desret no one around, few survivors of a past catastrofy, people looking for food or any thing to survive; then I found those boxed unopend leicas, gold and conmemoratives, it wasn´t dificult to find film (remember it was a dream), them we could come back to the present with images of our unresponsable future, images that made an impact in our society; and all thanks to leica collectors, then woke up and load my M4, after going to the loo and drink some coffe.

-- Arnold Capa (al1231234@hotmail.com), June 26, 2001.