Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/18

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Subject: Re: M6 versions
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 03:23:48 +0100

"Lucien_vD@compuserve.com" <Lucien_vD@compuserve.com> writes
><I recently saw an M6 which had only a large "M6" and red logo dot on the 
><front plate, kind of like the markings on the R cameras, not the smaller, 
><stacked "Leica M6" that I think of as normal.
><What is this? Is this a new camera, an old camera, or one of the special 
><editions, and is there anything different about it other than the 
><markings? I didn't get a good look at it.
>
>This is the M6 made at the time "Leitz Wetzlar" was changed in "LEICA
>CAMERA" Solms around Photokina 1988. In the M6 catalogue of that year,  the
>drawing of the inside of the camera was with that design. Those cameras are
>not common.

My M6 is one of these. I'd be very interested to know how uncommon this
is. It seems to be a standard M6 in every other way, although I've
always thought the pictures it takes are a bit special....;->
- -- 
JB