Leica M6 TTL
Leica · Leica M mount · 24×36mm on 35mm film, loaded through the base · 1998
Also known as: Leica M6 TTL · Leica M6 TTL 0.85 · Leica M6 TTL 0.58 · ライカM6 TTL
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.72× finder | Leica M | 1998–2002 | — | The standard version; no separate figure published |
| 0.85× finder | Leica M | 1998–2002 | — | Blocks of 150 and upward in the serial list |
| 0.58× finder | Leica M | 2000–2002 | — | Blocks from 2000 onward, including 2,000 black cameras at 2681401 |
| Titanium | Leica M | 1998–2002 | — | No figure published |
| Final edition | Leica M | 2002–2002 | — | 999 cameras, on the Leica Wiki's order-number note (10542 and 10545) |
- The 999-camera final edition splits 333 bodies with the 0.58× finder and 666 with the 0.85× (Ken Rockwell).
- The 0.58× finder drops the 135mm frame line as the 0.85× drops the 28mm: the two optional magnifications give up opposite ends of the frame set (Rockwell).
- The taller top plate has a mechanical consequence beyond fit in cases — the close-focus goggle attachment of the dual-range 50mm Summicron will not seat fully on an M6 TTL, though it seats on an M6 (Rockwell).
- 608 g with film and batteries, measured on a 0.85× body (Rockwell).
- Neither M6 will meter with the Hologon 15mm f/8, either Super-Angulon 21mm, or an Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 below serial 2314921: those rear elements sit over the metering patch (Rockwell).
How to tell them apart
- A top plate about 2mm taller than an M6's, to make room for the flash electronics
- A shutter-speed dial that is larger and turns in the OPPOSITE direction to every earlier M
- An off setting on the shutter dial, which the M6 does not have
0.72× finder:
- Six frame lines, 28 to 135mm — the M4-P arrangement
0.85× finder:
- No 28mm frame: the magnification is too high to show it
0.58× finder:
- The widest M finder — a 28mm frame usable with spectacles
Final edition:
- The last M6 TTLs built, sold as a numbered run
- 0.85× finder: For photographers working with 50mm and longer, where the extra precision earns its place.
Serial-range notes
- 2466101–2470100
- The first 4,000 cameras, dated to a single day — 19 June 1998.
- 2500000
- A round-number camera recorded on its own, as Leica does at each million.
- 2500044
- Recorded by name as Hanns-Peter Cohn's camera — Leica's chief executive of the period. Individual attribution of this kind is rare in these tables.
- 2688501–2688500
- A 0.85× block whose end number is below its start, with 2,000 cameras against it. A transcription slip, and the only one in this model's table.
- 2466101–2760000
- 51,173 numbers assigned across 24 rows in four years, including 1,050 in titanium.
Specifications
- Format
- 24×36mm on 35mm film, loaded through the base
- Finder
- Combined viewfinder and coupled rangefinder with LED metering display; three magnifications offered · 0.72× magnification · 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 90mm, 135mm framelines · automatic, in pairs — 35/135, 50/75, 28/90 · automatic parallax correction
- Shutter
- focal plane, rubberised cloth, mechanical · 1s – 1/1000 and B, plus an off position; the shutter runs without a battery
- Meter
- Centre-weighted TTL metering as on the M6, plus through-the-lens flash metering with a compatible unit; three-LED display with a central circle for correct exposure; CR 1/3N lithium cell.
- Country
- Germany
The 0.85× version cannot show the 28mm frame; the 0.58× is the widest M finder made.
Figures we worked out rather than found: 51,173 cameras in four years, against about 145,000 M6s in fourteen · The M6 TTL is 26% of all M6-family cameras despite running less than a third as long
Where sources disagree
- Whether it is a separate model or a version of the M6
- A version of the M6 — the Leica Wiki's own M6 page counts 1984–2003 as one production era
- A separate model — Leica sold it under its own name, with its own order numbers and its own serial blocks
Better supported: Separate, which is how this catalog files it
The taller top plate and the reversed shutter dial are mechanical differences a user feels immediately, and the two cameras were sold side by side. Counting them together also makes every published M6 production figure ambiguous.
What reviewers say
- Ken Rockwell (blog) — The only real difference from the M6 is the shutter dial and it is the better one — full sized, workable with a fingertip at the eye, and turning in the direction the meter LEDs suggest, where the M6's small dial turns the wrong way against them.
- Hamish Gill (blog) — Of the two M6 variants he prefers the TTL for its reworked shutter dial, while doubting it solves all of the first model's problems.
History
The M6 TTL adds one capability and changes two things people cared about more. The capability is flash metered through the lens, which meant the top plate had to grow about two millimetres to hold the electronics — enough that an M6 TTL and an M6 do not look the same in profile, and enough to matter for anyone using a hard case made for the older camera. The changes are a bigger shutter-speed dial with an off position, and a dial that turns the opposite way from every M built since 1954. Photographers complained about the direction for four years. When the MP arrived in 2003 it turned the right way again.
Underneath it is the M6: mechanical shutter that runs with a flat battery, a meter reading off a white patch on the curtain, the M4-P’s six frame lines. What is genuinely new for buyers is choice of finder. The 0.72× is standard; a 0.85× gives more focusing precision and loses the 28mm frame entirely; a 0.58× is the widest finder Leica has made and is the one to look for if you wear spectacles and work at 28mm. Those three magnifications, introduced here, are still how Leica sells finders today.
51,173 cameras were built in four years, which is a quarter of everything the M6 family produced in a third of the time. The first four thousand are dated to a single day, 19 June 1998, and two individual cameras are recorded by hand in the serial list: number 2500000, a round million as Leica always marks, and 2500044, noted as belonging to Hanns-Peter Cohn, the company’s chief executive. That kind of personal attribution is rare in these tables, and it is a reminder that they were compiled by people who knew the cameras.
This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.
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