Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:11 AM 1/16/2000 -0700, John Collier wrote: >Leica still stocks baseplates with the cam to operate the leica cassette if >anyone wants one for their new M6. They only recently discontinued the >feature which is pretty amazing considering how long it has been since they >made the cassettes. John The cassettes were available until shortly before the locking lugs in the baseplate were discontinued. The Solms M6's lack the lugs, so that is around 1987 or '88; the cassettes were still available in the US until 1980 or so, the same year Canon finally killed off their version of the Leica Cassette. (Nikon continued THEIR version of the Zeiss Ikon cassette until 1989, incidentally. I lost a bet on that, a decade back.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!