Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Edward Meyers wrote: > > > > Has anyone seen the prototype of the Leica M7? Tradition is > > that it gets tested on the streets of Wetzlar just like in > > 1914. Ed > > By saying that like that the implication is that there is one. > That's how rumors are started. I doubt there is one. I doubt there will > be an M7 or it's prototype soon. > Lot's of discussion has taken place here on where the M6 needs to evolve > to. > I'm in the group which feels it doesn't need to evolve anywhere. It is > in its own way perfect. > It is next to me in it's case with my other lenses now. Later on today > I'm doing some shooting with it. > Mark Rabiner > Not so fast. The M6 has a way to go in a new version with auto- exposure. That's the guess. I know that many years ago they were toying with a variable magnification finder, like in the Canon RFDR camera, but better. We shall see. Ed