Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/13

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Subject: [Leica] M7 : a numeric camera!
From: thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:37:18 +0100

Lucien wrote :
>
>IMHO, the M6 is not obsolete. The M concept was so in advance 
>that it's still in the race.

The M concept was in advance in 1953...
Around those days, Leica used to be a step forward to the concurence...
But now, the're not any more. 
Even the R8 is not novative :
mattrix metering : Nikon FA, 1983!
integrated flashmeter : Contax RTS III : 1988
TTL flash : Olympus OM2, 1976!
Full speed motor drive...joke...
Maybe the M7 will be anything but what you are guessing it will be. If leitz
wants to be "a step forward", the M7 is going to be a digital rangefinder
camera with high capacity and small size removable hardisks that will allow
36 exposures of high definition frames...
This would be really original, much more at least that to put the FM2
shutter in an M6 camera, which would give (nearly) nothing more except noise...
Thib.