Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] DR. BLACKTAPE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS QUESTION REGARDING ERWIN PUTTS' "REVIEW OF THE NEW M7...
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:54:13 -0700
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOKEDGCKAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>
 
Damn BD ,   are you implying..............? 


...........and who said that Leica lacks a PR department?....

...Steve



BD tactfully cogitated.....and nudgingly questionned...

> 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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In reply to: Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> ([Leica] DR. BLACKTAPE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS QUESTION REGARDING ERWIN PUTTS' "REVIEW OF THE NEW M7...)