[Leica] {Leica} Rumor mill working overtime!

[imxputs <imxputs@knoware.nl>]

Alan wrote partly:
>Simply borrowing the Minolta 9, as it is, as basis of a R9 project, would
>be suicidal.

I feel inclined to support Alan here. And I second his assumptions that the 
rumor mill is working overtime, without any substance. The origin of the 
"Minolta 9 will become the new R9" can be easily traced to an article in the 
British Journal of Photography, when Geoffrey Crawley, their chief testing 
officer, reviewed the Minolta 9, raved about it and suggested, probably tongue 
in cheek that this Minolta 9 might be the camera Leica should have been 
designed and built.
Probably this snippet of thinking went over the Atlantic Ocean and became a 
"wishfull fact" in the mind of a Leica dealer somewhere in the USA and now is 
an "established fact"  on the Lug. Well the whole R9 story up to now is a 
fiction. I might refer here to a recent interview in a German newspaper, where 
Mr Cohn expresses his doubts and second thoughts about the AF issue in the 
context of Leica products.


Erwin