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Subject: [Leica] M8 upgrade confirmed via e-mail from Leica
From: crbirchenhall at googlemail.com (Christopher Birchenhall)
Date: Thu Jan 31 14:05:52 2008
References: <C3C4E5A7.F87A%heninger@adobe.com> <64510FCD-D38A-467F-8384-5CFEA2C94110@elisanet.fi> <p0623090cc3c6721da821@10.0.1.200>
On 30/01/2008, Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote:
> I assume that this confirms that there won't be an M9 at Photokina.
What is the basis of this assumption? Why not upgrade the M8 alongside
a M9? M8 owners may feel upset if their investment is reduced in value
by a M9 and an upgrade may reduce those feelings. If you are right it
is because Leica have not yet fully re-organised; that is a credible
hypothesis.
Chris B
P.S. Any one else heard rumours of a new Leica M film camera?
Replies:
Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] M8 upgrade confirmed via e-mail from Leica)
Reply from jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] Lee Miller Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
In reply to:
Message from heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger) ([Leica] Leica Announcement (?) - No M9 this year; M8 Upgrade)
Message from jarmo.o.korhonen at elisanet.fi (Jarmo Korhonen) ([Leica] Leica Announcement (?) - No M9 this year; M8 Upgrade)