Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The End of the M5
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:57:04 -0500
 
At 09:45 PM 2/14/2000 -0500, Mike Durling wrote:
>I know several of you are pretty familiar with Leica history.  I am curious
>about the 1975-77 period.  According to Steven Gandy's site M5 production
>stopped in late 1974 or early 1975.  The M4-2 was started in production in
>1977.
>
>Did Leica intend to end rangefinder camera production for good after the
>market failure of the M5 only to rethink the decision?  

No.  The M4 was brought back into production in 1974:  3200 M4's were made
that year and a further 2620 in 1975.  This tided them them over while the
reworked the M4 into the M4-2, which entered production in '78.

Marc

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