[Leica] DR. BLACKTAPE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS QUESTION REGARDING ERWIN PUTTS' "REVIEW OF THE NEW M7...

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

...AND OF ALL OTHER THINGS LEICA.

Erwin Putts gets an M7 ONE YEAR ahead of release - when Leica is denying
that there will ever BE an M7. He gets extensive tours of the factory prior
to release, so that he can describe in worshipful prose the ancient sewing
machines, manned by the skilled Portuguese seamstress sewing the shutter
curtain.

Are we really expected to continue to believe that Erwin and his reports are
what any neutral observer would call "independent" of Leica and truly
objective?  We would suggest that we should judge his reports just as we
judge Leica's advertising materials, press releases, and the endorsements
from photographers to whom it gives free cameras.


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