Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] M4 and M4-2
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:43:33 -0400
 
At 06:22 AM 1998-08-21 -0700, Dennis Painter wrote:
>I don't remember this.  What I remember is that the M4 was discontinued
>because the M5 was in production. When Leica realized that lots of
>people wanted the M4 and not the M5 they brought back the M4 and dubbed
>it 'M4-2'  

The M5 flopped.  The M4 was brought back into production in 1974 and 1975,
with 4070 black models made in Germany and 1750 (chrome?) models in Canada.
 The M4-2 came out in 1978 when the M4 stocks were exhausted.

Marc


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