Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>on 6/1/01 11:53 PM, Christer Almqvist at christer@almqvist.net wrote: > >>> For those who care about such things, I see that Solms has finally >>> duplicated most of >>> the LHSA black paint M6TTL concept for one of its own offspring. >>> They have issued a >>> run of "Oresundsbron" black paint M6 TTL cameras with the rapid >>> rewind crank (unlike >>> the Millennium, ICS & Gold Dragon paint cameras). It carries a red dot. >>> >>> The camera commemorates the building of a bridge in Denmark. >> >> Now, wait a minute. This bridge is between Denmark and Sweden. And it >> is more than a simple bridge. May even be more important than >> internet for people in that region. > >I have been looking at this camera and I find it amusing that only half the >bridge (Danish side) is engraved on the back of the camera. Perhaps Leica >is waiting for the Swedish importer to commission another special edition of >this "Oresundsbron" camera and they will engrave the Swedish end of the >bridge. > >Joseph I have been away from Sweden a few decades now, so my information may be outdated, but a few years ago the Swedish Distributor for Leica was located in Denmark, and probably still is. That explains a lot. And of course, the writer of the original message would have been correct, had they built the bridge a couple of hundred years ago. Then both sides of Öresund were Danish. Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France