Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica M
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:40:55 -0700
References: <F24CYgxuWjySuLYhE1E000293f9@hotmail.com> <3C3F60F7.2586C81@markrabiner.com>

Mark,

An M7A is not an M7 forever.

Regards,

Greg

Mark Rabiner wrote:

>thomas schofield wrote:
>
>>Reed's Cameras is taking $500 deposits if you have to be first in line.
>>They called it an M7A, and said it would look like an M6 TTL with an "A" on
>>the shutterspeed dial.
>>
>>Tom Schofield
>>
>
>
>I just called the Reed's Cameras  and they say their Leica rep. told
>their buyer it will be announced at the PMA and the camera following
>shortly afterward but they need $2000 not $500.
>Refundable if the camera does not come out.
>
>I'm not buying any of it. ANd They said it would be called the M7, not M7A.
>Perhaps the rep. had one too many cups of coffee or the buyer heard him wrong.
>
>I informed them I'd not be sending them my $2000 until Leica announces
>the camera - i hoped they understood.
>
>
>Anyone wants to send ME $2000 I'll send you back TWICE your money when
>the M7 comes out this year or I keep the money!
>:)
>
>I'm afraid i still believe Herr Cohn when he told us in effect at the
>LHSA meeting the previous year:
>
>There will be no Leica M7 forever.
>
>Mark Rabiner
>Portland, Oregon USA
>http://www.markrabiner.com
>
>I can maybe see them maybe putting an A setting on an M6 and calling it
>an M6 A.
>I believe that the M6 is by Leica rightfully considered the culmination
>of where Leica had been heading for some time.
>	The realization, fulfillment, consummation, fruition...
>
>They're not going to blow it and come out with an M7. That would be
>obviously stupid.
>If they redesign a higher synced camera with a different shutter they'll
>not call it an M anything.
>
>Read it and weep we'll see who's right on this one.
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