Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The M6 Fugue
From: Dominique.Pellissier@droit-eco.univ-nancy2.fr (Dominique PELLISSIER)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:26:59 +0100 (MET)
 
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>You are missing the point. The worst thing that could happen would be to get 
>what you're dreaming about. If Solms bestowed an electronic M on you, it 
>would be bogus. Why? Because it would not be manual. It would lose the 
>tactile quality that makes the M the precision camera system it is. It would 
>be an assembled camera, not a hand finished camera. That loss would show in 
>the negatives and prints.
>
>I'm sick of fast food type cameras and systems.
>
>BR  
>
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If i were the Leica's CEO, I'd concentrate the resources on the R8 which is
a problem, not on the M which sells like hot cakes.
If somebody dreams of a M6 AE, there is already an electronic Leica called
Hexar.