Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: True Story: the M7 was actually meant to be the M6! (or vice versa)
From: "Douglas Herr"<telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 16:01:16 -0700

> 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
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