Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Japanese special edition of new Leica M
From: Lucien <director@ubi.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:42:22 +0100
References: <LNBBLBNFHNEHGFKFMALGIEMNEGAB.tim@KairosPhoto.com>

Tim Atherton wrote:

> Merely a one off special edition Lucien, as far as all can tell, - for all
> intents and purposes Leica has stopped making a mechanical M camera as a
> course of regular production - stop putting off your grieving Lucien, all
> your hopes against hope won't prevent it... it will only hurt all the more
> once your acts of denial can no longer hold up in the face of cold hard
> reality...
>
> They'll probably keep making these little vanity models every now and then
> as a money/prestige spinner as long as the tools and dies are all still
> around and someone is willing to commission them. But the M mechanical
> camera as a normal production model will soon be nothing more than a faint
> memory :-)

Tim,

In French we say : Rira bien qui rira le dernier.

He who laughs last laughs longest...

;-)

Lucien

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