Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Black Dots
From: "Simon" <simple@forestchina.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 14:45:38 +0800
References: <24.622d315.267328c8@aol.com>

Hello,

Is there any way to buy just the black dot for my classic M6?

Thanks
Simon Cheong


- ----- Original Message -----
From: <LEICAMAN56@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: [Leica] Black Dots


> When I met with Hanns-Peter Cohn at PMA in February, he pointed to the
black
> Leica dot on the prototype LHSA camera and compared it with the red dot on
> his Millennium.  He said, "Bill, surely there must be some mistake that
the
> dot is not red.   After all, the red Leica dot is Leica corporate
identity.
> I assured him that there was no mistake, this was what I specified for the
> camera.  He then replied that this was OK if this was what we really
wanted.
> And now you know how the black dot was born.
>
> Bill Rosauer
> BTW, it is made of metal and painted black, not molded plastic.

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