Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Friday FS/ NEW M7 / Akademie
From: "thomas schofield" <tdschofield@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:47:10 -0800

Reed's says the announcement will be at PMA, and they expect to start 
receiving them in about March or more likely April.  While I do not doubt 
that is what they were told, lets hope it is not an R8 motot situation!  
They say around $2500 to $2600, and it will first be available in 0.72 only, 
with both .85 versions and .58 versions to follow.  No word on what finishes 
will come out first or eventually.  They undrstand it will continue to be a 
horizontal cloth shutter.  Camera to be essentialy the same as an M6 TTL 
with the automation.  This paragraph is based upon info from Reeds.

I would guess that the mechanical timing mechanism may just be getting 
swapped out for an electronic control releasing the second curtain.  Maybe 
the more precise control will allow coaxing a higher flash synch speed and a 
higher shutter speed.  What will be interesting to see is if there is a 
battery independent manual mode like the N**** FM3.  This paragraph is my 
speculation.

Tom Schofield

>It will be great to just set the Noctilux at f1 the shutter at A and be 
>there.
>I think in just a week or so somebody (not me) is going to have hard M7
>evidence in hand.
>
>
>Mark Rabiner


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