Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/20
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At 1:40 AM +0000 2/21/02, leica@davidmorton.org wrote:
>Feliciano di Giorgio writes:
>
>"Actualy I hope they don't kill the M6. The M5 disaster comes to mind.
>I think it would be good for Leica to have the M6 as the $1500 entry
>level model."
>
>I think we'll know the answer when the press release embargo expires on
>Monday morning. If the M7 electronic shutter works at all speeds without a
>battery (as the one in Nikon's FM3A does), then the M6TTL will probably die
>in time. If - on the other hand - the M7 shutter only works mechanically at
>one or two speeds without a battery, then the M6TTL will probably live on.
The M7 will have only two reasonable speeds without batteries; 1/60
(or 1/50) and 1/125.
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