Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perhaps they have been swayed by the ever popular Porsche 911, which has been many different cars with similar styling and developed engineering but keeping the same name. >________________________________ > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013, 20:55 >Subject: Re: [Leica] New M > >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 > > >