Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html