Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/24
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BMW's attempt to straighten out LandRover did not go over to well...They
gave up!
Gene
Martin Howard
<mvhoward@mac.com> To: Leica Users Group LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
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owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: [Leica] Leica does it again
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02/23/2003 04:48 PM
Please respond to
leica-users
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.
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