Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And that was a magic number for Volvo, as well! Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] New M >M 240 sounds about right. The problem with just M is that it refers to the >entire range of Leica rangefinder cameras since the introduction of the M3 >in 1954, so it is inherently confusing to use it to refer to a specific >model. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > >> A lot of people mystified at the naming decisions Tina. Some further >> confusion because people made up extra ones too. >> Just think Monochrom. MM is just shorthand in the internet discussions I >> don't think that Leica Camera call it that. >> M10 is what most of us thought it would be but Leica Camera never used >> that. >> M typ 240 is their internal product nomenclature. Other models have their >> own number but they never intended to use those externally. Did you know >> what a typ 220 is? That is the M-E! >> People just adopted M 240 to try to make it clearer which they meant. >> >> Repeat after me ;-) Monochrom, M, M-E, Muddled, >> I don't think that the results from them will be muddled though. >> >> >> *If you want to take more interesting pictures, >> stand in front of more interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> >> On 1 March 2013 06:39, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: >> >>> If you Google Leica Monochrom, all of the reviews and sales that come up >>> call it the Leica M. For awhile, everybody was referring to the new >>> Leica >>> as the M/240. Now they seem to have dropped the 240 and are just saying >>> M. >>> Too confusing!!! What's wrong with M10? >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> I thought the Monochrom was "MM". >>>> >>>> Jim Nichols >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at >>>> comporium.net> >>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:34 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New M >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The name is so very confusing! I keep seeing references to the Leica M >>>>> and >>>>> think they are referring to the Monochrom, but it's always the new >>>>> one! >>>>> Are we going to call both of them the Leica M? >>>>> >>>>> Tina >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> So a (very) few are out in the wild now.... >>>>>> >>>>>> john >>>>>> >>>>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< >>> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>>>> www.tinamanley.com >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< >>> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< >>> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >