Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> >Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:11:05 -0500 >Subject: Fwd: [Leica] Re: Photokina > >>35 mm thing. Should I wait to see if there is a new M at Photokina? My >local >>Leica rep hinted as much, but he is prone to idle speculation. > >Can you afford to wait? Some times just before Photokina the world leaks >out what's coming. So if you can stand to wait until Photokina, just be >ready to buy then. You will know soon, thanks to the Web. If you can't >wait, the M6 Classic is wonderful, easy to use, etc. > >My bet is the Photokina of 2000 will have the new M camera. Though I do >remember that the '96 Photokina there was a rumor that a CL2 would arrive >in the '98 Photokina. >- -- > >Eric Welch It is easy to forecast a new M body : go to Solms and observe if a part of the factory is hidden to the visitors. Two years ago it was the case before the coming of the R8. Now it is possible that the new body be built elsewhere : in Giessen (where Minox developed here a prototype of a RF camera with interchangeable lenses)or in Japan. I bet, with the help of my crystal ball, for a Leica-Minox camera (CL2). Dominique Pellissier