I’ve found that the timeless reliability and solid construction of the Leica MP are just as reassuring as the peace of mind I get from professional covington foundation repair for a truly stable and lasting investment.

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Leica is actually pretty good. www.drywallmarietta.com recommends it!

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I still have this, and it's perfectly fine. It has sharp shot, zoom good etc. I still using it when I'm working at junk hauling portland. It's been 3 years now since I bought it.. - pressure washing

Hopefully the battery will last.. I don't know if I can buy a original battery now a days.

Perfect! Excellent quality. view here

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>lack of needless features >straightforward layout of controls >a minimalist's dream come true >good value over a lifetime of ownership Highly recommended withtree doctor.

prohibitively expensive up-front price tag

Love the quality Emergency Towing Service

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The almost perfect Leica M for film.

The shutter release is not smooth like the mechanical M series due to the intermediate pressure for the light meter. The meter failed at minus ten degrees and I had to take it back to the Leica service centre, where they fixed it, but it has not been so cold since then.

Viewfinder
ease of focus
heft
fit and finish
feel in the hand
the photos

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I have owned 4 Leica M6's and a Leica CL as well as Leica SLR's. And I have to say that the Leica MP is without doubt the best Leica ever made and that includes the M3 upon which it takes it's design cues. It is solidly built with excellent fit and finish and is clearly meant to be, and succeeds at, being the final flower of the Leica M brand. Any complaints about this camera (Leica buyers are NOTORIOUSLY fussy and curmudgeonly, griping about the smallest details) will have to do with aesthetics. The heck with them. It's a beauty. I would not change a thing - and that goes for the covering, which feels fantastic!!

Customer Service

None, yet but Leica is pretty good. You can always reach someone - a real person.

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Manual operation / Great Center Weight Meter - Exposures are great starting points that I can adjust from & It actually made me realize that this is all you really need. / Construction - I never realized that a 35mm camera of this size could weigh so much! / Lens system is excellent. / Looks -Amazing style I love it. / Very Quiet - One of the strong points that drew me to Leica. / Leica offers education discounts. / Leica's commitment to film. / Images are outstanding with proffesional film. Blow ups are very clean. You just need to make sure you get good scans for digital blow ups.

Very Expensive & the prices keep going up. I only buy new because I never sell & I use the hell out of my cameras. Collectors are driving the prices up. Lenses are very expensive. This is not an camera system easily justified from a dollar perspective, especially for a 35mm system. Rangefinders are not great for close ups. Dependent on good scanning to get images into computer.

This is my first tru Rangefinder. Best camera I have ever owned. I love film and what it offers, and the MP takes full advantage of that. I love the convience of digital and the convience of what technology offers these days, but the manual operation of the MP is a breath of fresh air that turns your brain back on and freshens up your skills. Using this camera actually brings me joy. It is very reaffirming in a photographers abilities. I have always photographed with SLR medium format cameras. I needed something smaller and more descreet. I hated the idea of going down to 35mm. I believe in the bigger neg, but hte MF cameras are too big to take with you everywhere & they draw a lot of attention to yourself. Leica was my answer & I have no regrets. I made the transition in an evening. The results met my expectations.

Customer Service

None needed at this point.

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Its called a "Mechanical Precision". I could not have thought of a better name!
Fast intuitive and confidence inspiring.

All of the limitations of a rangefinder, i.e, limited focal length, no reflex view, no flash TTL, but in its niche applications it can not be faulted.

Prior to purchasing my MP I had a long and fruitful relationship with the Leica R8. Using available light for portrait photography it was a natural progression for me to switch over to the rangefinder. I spent some time trying out used M6's and then my dealer got a near mint MP. It was no contest. The M6 wins on TTL flash and this may be an important factor. Also the MP's flash sync of 1/50 might seem a tad slow. This does not really bother me because as soon as you stick a flash onto a Leica M you are already compromised. What really struck me about the MP was the quality of the viewfinder and the absence of flare from the focusing patch. It was also noticeable that damping of the shutter is more effective on the MP than on the M6 and in theory this should improve picture quality at slow shutter speeds. It would be very difficult to actually demostrate this though as an M6 performs pretty well any way. I was also attracted to the updated electronics in the MP and in practice I have found the metering to be more consistent than on an M6.

I have had the MP for well over a year now and the images from the MP have been absolutely faultless. Image quality with my 50 f2 'cron and 90 2.8 elmarit are very close to medium format at up to 16x12" enlargements. Close but not quite!! The real pleasure in using the MP is in its no fuss smooth quiet and efficient operation. It is very quick to use and inspires confidence.

Others have siad all that has to be said about build quality. It is better than contemporary M6's and the current M7 but both of the latter are by no means badly designed. You simply have to juse an MP for a week or so and its limitations soon appear to be its greatest strengths.

Customer Service

Not tested

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