Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why don't you buy 'em Martin? Make a camera, and one will still find a reason to hate it. Chris New Orleans - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Howard" Subject: [Leica] Leica does it again > > Leica never ceases to amaze me. They cancel the production of the > M6TTL in favour of bringing out the M6P (or whatever it will be called) > which has less useful features and ignores some of the lessons they've > learnt during the production/design run of the M6/TTL/M7 years (lack of > on/off switch, old style rewind, and old (pre M6) shutter dial to name > three examples). > > To boot, they offer the finishes which people seem to desire the most > (if the LUG is anything to go by) on one camera only -- while reserving > the .58x and .85x for chrome cameras. > > They then follow this up with a poorly designed manual winder that > ignores the lessons learnt about *those* in the past, what, 30 years? > priced way out into the stratosphere. The fact that it is backwards > compatible with the older M4-M6TTL cameras is just about pointless when > the damn thing costs more than most s/h bodies in the first place. > > It's like this company *wants* to go out of business. > > Can't BMW buy out Leica and beat some sense into these scarfmakers? > > M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html