Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:47 PM 7/6/00 EDT, you wrote: > I'm sure that lack of money plays a >large role in the decision to leave things alone. M cameras are probably >only marginally profitable as they are. Probably correct, plus institutional memory of the CL and M5 fiascos. >Finally, with regard to batteries, there is nothing exotic about lithium >batteries No, not at all...right now and probably for many years to come. But they may be mighty exotic in 20 years... Don't get me wrong; most of my cameras are electric, and those shutters have been by far the most consistent and reliable of all...but otoh I'm about to send off an an OM-4t that went belly-up electronically. With electric cameras it's usually all or nothing, while probably most of us have owned a Leica in which one or more of the speeds were "funny" but otherwise worked fine. John Hicks jbh@magicnet.net