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: Patrick Jelliffe <pbjbike@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:52:44 -0800 (PST)

Does anyone care to make a wager?  My money/drink/film
is on Lucien.  If mechanical M's stay in production as
"special editions" in any fiscal year, then that
counts as "continuous production". :0)

Patrick


- --- Lucien <director@ubi.edu> wrote:
> 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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