Whats New About the M6 TTL?
As I wrote at the head of this article, there are many fine web sites and books devoted to M Leica photography and I certainly won’t try to recreate what’s already out there. But though the M series is now almost 50 years old, and the M6 has remained largely unchanged since it was introduced in 1984, during the past couple of years there have been some modest updates. The most obvious of these is TTL flash metering. My feeling is that this is a feature that very few people asked for. M Leicas are stealth cameras. For many they’re the camera that one uses when one doesn’t want to be seen using a camera. The fact that even a 2001 model M6 Leica has an antediluvian sync speed of 1/50th second makes this feature less than useful to most people. The big news is that M Leicas now come with three different magnification viewfinders: .58, .72 and .85. The latest is the .58 and this is ideal for use with wide angle lenses, which of course is where an M Leica excels. This is the model that I bou
