At the very least, I thought so when I eventually took the leap into the M-System. However, if you can find a good deal - and there are more than a few out there - it’s very much worth the additional investment. Prices for the M6 TTL today can reach as much as 25-35% more than the original M6 on the secondhand market. Leica M6 TTL 0.58 and Leica Summicron 35mm f/2.8 Image credit: Francis Pullen That metallic strip at the bottom of the finder window? It provides a surface for the light meter’s LED indicators to be reflected onto. For those of us who do, the new Leica M6 TTL 0.58 still provided excellent visibility of both its 28mm and 35mm framelines: something no Leica had done through the viewfinder up until that point.Įach of the three finder options can be identified by way of a marking on the bottom-right of the viewfinder window (as you look at the front of the camera. The M6 TTL 0.58 was designed to be an ideal pairing with wide-angle lenses and could be used to frame lenses as wide as 24mm without an external viewfinder…if you don’t wear glasses that is. These were eventually supplemented by a 0.58x magnification version in 2000 - Leica’s first sub-0.72x magnification viewfinder. Like the original M6 - which I’ll be referring to as the “M6 Classic” and “original M6” interchangeably throughout this article - the M6 TTL came with two viewfinder magnification options on its release. The name rather understandably caused more than a little confusion when the camera was first released and has led more than a few puzzled photographers to wonder if the original M6 came with a light meter at all. The camera itself came in black or silver chrome or a titanium-plated finish on release (along with three Ti finish lenses). In short, a faster less fiddly experience. While the TTL flash metering update was something of an outlier - only really important to a niche within a niche of photographers at the time - that huge shutter speed dial brought with it better ergonomics and because it moves in the same direction as the light meter’s indicators, better usability. Leica M6 TTL 0.85 and Leica Summicron 50mm f/2 v4 Image credit: Damien A Weidner An in-depth guide to: The Leica M6 TTL - EMULSIVE Close Search for:
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