Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 update.
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:34:05 -0800

Most dealers locally carry 1 or  maybe 2 variety of camera, and promise to
special order the rest.  Inventory is, to say the least, minimal.  It makes
no difference if Leica offers 2 or 27 different flavors of M cameras.  I do
not see this as changing.  The markup on cameras is too slim and the
inventory turnover for most dealers is too small.  For the big guys like
B+H, they will just use size of inventory to beat their cost down.

The electronic + mechanical  parts of a electromechanical camera are not
necessarily bigger or smaller than the mechanical parts of a mechanical
shutter.  The body of this M7 may be the same size as the Classic. or TTL.
We will need to wait.

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net

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