Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/10

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: M6J technical improvement
From: cameras@ix.netcom.com (Stephen Gandy)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 21:15:52 -0700
 
You wrote: 
>
>At 11:11 AM 08/05/1996 -0700, you wrote:
>>At 10:34 AM 6/7/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>>In my opinion, Leica better concentrate on technical innovations and 
reduce
>>>emphasis on gimmicks like the Passport and M6J.
>>
>>We have to remember that the M6-J is a major technial improvement in 
the M
>>series. It's just too bad it's a collector. Rumors will no doubt 
persist for
>>years, until Leica finally breaks down and builds one for the rest of 
us,
>>that it's going to be a production camera some day. (We can hope, 
can't we?)
>>
>  You forgot about the biggest technical improvement from the 
Leica factory standpoint....charging 3 times (4 times?) as much
for the camera.   
>
>