Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> ...Why Leica doesn't think about introducing an M6B, same camera without any > electronics what so ever, and perhaps with fewer frame lines. No meter. No > TTL flash. Essentially an M4. It would have to be hundreds of dollars less > expensive than the M6TTL, would provide current M users with a terrific > second body, particularly one on which to mount 21, 24 and 28 mm lenses, as > well as providing a less expensive, but equally high quality, point of entry > for would-be Leica users. There was indeed such a camera: M4-P. I believe it was available until 1989, so the production overlapped with M6 for five years. Well, we all know how popular M4-P was.