Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 16/1/00 4:11 pm, Marc James Small at msmall@roanoke.infi.net wrote: > 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! > Thanks Marc for clearing up the mess my prematurely ailing memory was causing! John Collier