Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/21

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicaflex SL2MOT
From: inyoung@jps.net
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 19:50:25

Hi,

  If these were made with leftover parts when Leitz became Leica, are these
considered genuine SL2MOT.  I have heard a mixture of good and bad so far.
What did you mean by "camera will not work with the motor drive"?  If this
is true, it is not SL2MOT.  I read the letter from Hong Kong in Viewfinder.
 There he mentioned something about originality.  Any more thoughts on this?

Regards,
David

At 04:04 PM 5/21/98 EDT, you wrote:
>David,
>
>I have seen some of these cameras myself.  The first one was in 1992 at a
>dealer in Germany.  The camera was new in box with new warranty in shrink
>wrapping, which Leica never used back in the 70's.  I asked my contacts at
>Leica in Solms about this and they professed to know nothing about them.
Some
>time later, one of my customers acquired one from a dealer out east.  He
>informed me the camera will not work with the motor drive.
>
>I believe they were made up from parts left over and found when Leica
moved to
>Solms.
>
>Bill Rosauer
>
>