Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01

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Subject: Re: Vs: [Leica] Leica R death
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:55:21 -0400

telyt560@cswebmail.com jotted down the following:

> On Sun, 01 October 2000, Martin Howard wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Dan Cardish jotted down the following:
>> 
>>> Nothing fancy, just a minimum of controls, a TTL lightmeter at most.  Like
>>> the R6.2, but even more basic and smaller.
>> 
>> How can you get more basic than the R6?!??  Short of removing the shutter
>> speed dial and replacing it with the slot-width control knob of the
>> nullseries?
>> 
>> M.
>> 
> 
> Leica could eliminate the TTL flash and center-weighted metering, but I can't
> see that would cut costs much.  Likewise the motor/winder connections.

Oh yeah, *that* sounds like a good idea: Take a perfectly usable camera, and
cripple it.

M.

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