Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/05

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Konica Price
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:07:02 -0000

The website I looked at put the sync at a 125th...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of George
> Berger
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 10:48 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Konica Price
> 
> 
> >I suspect they overpriced the camera because as long as the 
> price is still
> >a few hundred bucks below the M6, people will buy it as a 
> "cheap" M6 and
> >use Leica lenses on it.  When the fervour settles, the real 
> pricing kicks
> >in. I would not be in a hurry to get the Hexar for the time being.
> 
> 
> I went to the Konica web site out of curiosity (remembering what 
> Minolta did with the CLE); however, the flash synchro speed was not 
> to be found - -  along with the dimensions and weight of the body.
> 
> For those of us who must use diopter correction screw-ins, there was 
> no mention of either corrective lenses or built-in diopter 
> adjustment.
> 
> Also: Is the shutter a series of fixed exposures, or is it a 
> continuous mode ?
> 
> Just asking < grin >
> 
> George
> 
> 
> George Berger
> gberger@his.com
>