Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]D. Leitz, Wetzlar, announces a special edition Leica M6, just in time for Valentine's Day. Based on the famed Black Paint LHSA Leica, the new camera has several features of interest to those in love. Instead of the familiar "red dot" with the company logo, the new camera sports a red heart inscribed "Küssen Sie mich!"* A self-timer has been re-introduced, allowing couples to easily take pictures of themselves. The self-timer is regulated by the movement of a tiny music box that plays an brief selection from Brahms' "Liebeslieder Waltzes." Because of this feature, the camera has been dubbed the "Liebeslieder-Leica." The Liebeslieder-Leica comes equipped with a modern recreation of the collapsable 50mm Summitar lens, specially formulated to render the famed "Leica glow" at wide apertures. Legendary lens tester Erwin Puts does not like the lens, enumerating technical flaws such as "uncorrected spherical aberration" and "fuzzy rendition of fine detail in the far field." However, female subjects have been unanimous in their praise of the new Summitar, saying it produces very flattering skin tones, creamily Romantic images, and attractive "retro" corner vignetting. As a companion item, D. Leitz has is also introducing a "dummy" of the Liebeslieder-Leica cast in solid Belgian chocolate with a pistachio marzipan red heart, manufactured to the same precise manufacturing tolerances as the actual camera. ***** Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! :-) - --Peter Klein Seattle, WA