Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R8 Brick now Hans-Brick
From: "dominique pellissier" <noct@club-internet.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 06:24:38 +0100
 
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From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R8 Brick now Hans-Brick


> So Hans don't buy an R8! By the way, the original Nikon F did not have TTL
> metering until later in its life too.
(snip)

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When the leicaflex was marketed in  1965, there were already a Photomic ttl
for the Nikon F and the Nikkormat with a ttl.
So Leica moved already slowly.
The interesting question is : why  R8 sales have gone down suddenly in 1998
? Whereas M6 sales have maintained the same level.