Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] Pop Photo
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 16:47:21 -0800

I guess I didn't know that anyone still subscribed to Pop Photo. Learn
something new every day...

Jim


At 12:48 AM 12/9/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Greg Locke wrote:
>> 
>> At 07:39 PM 08/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> 
>> >In last Pop Photo, you can see two cheap ads for the R8 and M6.(half 
>page, b&w)
>> >Not even the M6TTL, two month after the Fotokina !!!.
>> >
>> 
>>     Just to be a little fair (;~).... most national magazine ad buying
>> is done up to a year in advance and actual ad placement up to 2 months
>> before publication date.
>
>Greg,
>
>The Leica M6TTL brochure is dated from April 1998 !
>And the M6 TTL advert was used in September in other magazine.
>BTW, that's one the problem with Pop Photo, the two months delay.
>A Photokina report in December ! ;-)
>
>To be really fair their was a fifth of page about the M6 TTL in 
>the Photokina report.(Pop Photo 12/98)
>And their was a mention about it at the end of the 'old' M6 test/report.
>
>
>Lucien