Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The camera you saw in the Japanese ad is > well-known to devoted Leica cognoscenti. It > was based on R4 innards but with an M > rangefinder plunked on top. Those guts may have > something to do with the peculiar outer > dimensions. Times were tough for Leica's M > camera program in those days and for some > reason the project died then. I agree it > looks quite neat though and, if it had been > made, would have forever altered the > marque's history. If it had R4 innards, no question it would have altered the marque's history. Good thing it didn't make it into produciton. Doug Herr<BR>Birdman of Sacramento<BR>http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html