Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Danny: The cited text says '... a limited edition of 500 of _each_ of the M6 or R7 ...'. (both: black chromed, intended as test- or demostration models) Here's some additional info from one of my dealers. She :) said, that there have been some troubles with angry customers, because the engravement wiped off. Sorry, I don't have a second opinion on that, and I don't know whether it's true, since I never saw one of those cameras. Alf - ----------------- At 23:17 02.10.1997 +0000, you wrote: >It has recently come to my attention that the US arm of Leica believes the Partner Aktion >Deutschland M6 was made only in an edition of 250 units. That is to say that it was half >of an edition of 500 cameras, split between 250 M6's and 250 R7's. In Peter Zaretzke's >post on the subject, he quotes Leica's official response: > > "Die LEICA Partner-Aktion Deutschland 1996 bestand aus eine limitierte >Auflage von je 500 LEICA M6- und LEICA R7-Kameras (beide schwarz verchromt). >Diese Kameras trugen auf der Deckkappe oben als Gravur die Silhouette der >Bundesrepublik Deutschland sowie die Aufschrift >"Leica Partner-Aktion Deutschland 1996". >Beide Kameras waren im Rahmen der Partner-Aktion als Test- oder >Demo-Modelle f|r den aktiven Einsatz beim Leica Interessenten >bestimmt." > >Can someone fluent in the German language confirm which assumption is correct please? > >Thanks, >Danny Gonzalez >