Re: [Leica] M6 J and a new M camera!

[Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>]

At 07:40 PM 3/2/98 -0500, you wrote:

>What is wrong with my response? Some is looking for a M6j. You can put the
>rangefinder into a regular m6 right? 

Not right. Can't be done. (Because Leica won't do it, or it won't fit).
That's why the M6HM has been brought out.

Now I just read in in a magazine article that came out in October 28, 1996
in Business Week, in an interview with Leica CEO Klaus-Dieter Hofmann - and
I quote - "The company is working on a state-of-the-art digital camera for
1998, plus a new M series for the turn of the decade."

This is not the M6HM, or they would have said 1998 like the S-1 they refer
to. So in a few years, we will have a new M camera to play with.

Now you can blame me for bringing this issue up again.

By the way, Jay Deutsch of the Leica Gallery sent me this article.

Another point, Leica is going to start targeting professionals like never
before. Lots of other info. in this article that made me confident Leica is
doing things right.

Another thing Hofmann said was some production has been moved to the
Portugal plant to lower costs of production, and that the number of
employees in Solms was increased. R&D budget increased. Numbers were 10,000
M cameras made per year, and 7,000 R cameras. Of course, that has increased
since the R8 came out no doubt.

Then "We have to [remain] the best in optics," says Burkard Kiesel,
management board member in charge of production and R&D. "That's our mission."

So lets not start a doom and gloom thread, but look forward to what Leica
will bring us in the future!
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Profanity sucks.