Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] What the heck is this Leica camera?!?
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:52:17 -0400

Bmceowen@aol.com jotted down the following:

> Or am I just overlooking the obvious? Is there a model I've forgotten?

It's the M6J.  Overpriced collectors item.  A sort of retro-M6 made to look
like an M3, but of course, Leica didn't do it properly, so they stuck the
modern rewind knob on the camera.

M.

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