Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/17

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Subject: Re: New M6 Commemorative
From: ABreull@aol.com
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:20:00 -0400 (EDT)

In einer eMail vom 17.08.1997  17:00:35, schreiben Sie:

>
>Agree that Leica needs to pretty up their M-6 which looks like it was
>finished
>by ninth grade shop students.  Just compare the top plate with the older M
>series cameras.  The old one is elegant while the new one is bare-assed
>naked!
>Apparently, the new crew does not have an eye for how things should look.
>Kind
>of like  sending bulldozer designers to put the finishing touches on a
>Porsche.


We all live in a free country, and you are free to buy an M6 ESL ... has some
nice engravings ...


>Reminds me of their need to upgrade their M-6 brochure which is just a bunch
>of
>fuzzy photos rather than razor sharp images the lenses are capable of
>producing
>in the the hands of capable photographers.  Leica has always lost out to the
>Hasselblad advertising because Hasselblad had the good sense to provide
sharp
>photos while the Leica executives pumped out stuff even newsprint
>photographers
>would be ashamed to print.

Absolutely sorry, to agree ...

- -Alf