Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] New M
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:19:05 -0600
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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.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
>>>>
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>>>> 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
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In reply to: Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] New M)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] New M)
Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] New M)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] New M)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] New M)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] New M)