Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] New M-6 Version - now official
From: m037iu00@cwcom.net
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 10:50:19 +0100

You guys in the foriegn part of the world (ouch!)
might recall a beast of a camera, once described as "oversized,
overhyped,
and thankfully not over here"...

The Traid Fotron?

About the size of a (n American) football, it included a built in
electronic flash, and this was in the early 60's, which required a 3 day
charge up if you wanted to shoot more than 2 films a day! There was
motorised wind on but the saddest part was the fact that the films only
contained 10 shots a go and produced 25mm square piccies on 828 film!!

Hey those American designers had it made!

Jem
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Bernard wrote:

> Hey... it might even be bigger than the F5! That would set yet another
> record for most absurdly large camera to roll a tiny film through....
>
> Bernard