Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:06 AM 8/21/98 +0000, you wrote: >cost-saving exercise as an outright improvement. Remember, cost-cutting >is why Leitz swapped from the M4 to the M4-2; improvements between the How can this be true, when the time between the two was long. And the M5 was between them. They revivied the M4-2 when the M5 failed in the market. >M4 and M4-2 are hard to find and even harder to justify. But the That is true. Except that a motor can be attached (never mind an excessively poor motor). >By its very nature, an all-mechanical shutter is expensive to produce Absolutely true. >However, I am more of the opinion that Leica will produce a sort of M6 >'plus', sporting TTL metering and a few other concessions to make it >more 'competitive' with the Contax and the like. In other words, it >could be a motordriven CLE in an almost M-series body. We shall see=85 Nope. There will be one more thing besides TTL. That's my guess. Otherwise, it will be the good old M6 (and I don't mean electronic shutter). Just wait and see. :-) - --=20 Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Your e-mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage