Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]...earlier today at a Leica event held at Zurich's largest photo dealer, Foto Ganz. I was very pleasantly surprised, and I think I want one. This is a true Leica in every respect; holding it and looking at it, it feels and looks exactly like my M6. It is only the little but important details which give it away: the redesigned film speed dial on the back, which now also includes a DX setting and exposure compensation dial; the fact that the film speed dial can now turn 360 degrees in either direction; the little but oh so practical on-off switch under the shutter release which also blocks the release and thus prevents battery drain; and of course the AE position on the shutter dial. Whether this camera is sufficiently different from the M6 to warrant a new name is irrelevant, although I must say that the new features add up to a greater difference than that between the M3 and M2 and hence justify the new name. What is important is that Leica seems to have listened to the many suggestions from M users and incorporated several very desireable features without changing the essence of a Leica M camera. Very well done indeed. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html