Re: [Leica] Vapourware Leica M7 vs Existing M6

["Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>]

There were some cost cutting in the construction of M4-2 like no self t=
imer
and simplified frame counter, PC sync outlet set in moulded plastic etc=
 -
but I=B4d think the shutter is the same as in other M series Leicas. Le=
ica
shutter is regarded as a model of simplicity.
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
my=F6s suomeksi

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> From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Vapourware Leica M7 vs Existing M6
> Date: 22. elokuuta 1998 3:43
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> At 06:22 AM 8/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
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> >it 'M4-2'  Some people have indicated that they took cost reduction
> >measures on the M4-2 which make it less desirable than the M4 but th=
ats
> >another topic.
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> Some people is not terribly reliable. I do remember there are fewer p=
arts
> in an M4-2 than in an M3/4 like amount of things to adjust on the
shutter.
> But people don't seem to complain about the M4-2/P/6 shutter being
> unreliable, no? On the rangefinder too. But my M6 focuses just fine. =
No
> matter how dedicated a company is, they still have to work within  a
budget
> I suppose.=20
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> If you ask me, any benefit from the minimal "better" quality of an M4
over
> it's descendants is not worth not having a meter, or saving a buck - =
they
> are overpriced due to collectors. (Just an opinion, mind you based on=
 my
> being a user).
> --=20
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> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
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> .'Sounds like art,' the instructor says. 'Well, it is art,' I say.
> 'This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's ju=
st
> that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out
where
> the two separated...' "
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> Robert M. Pi