Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica does it again
From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:25:13 -0700

Martin--

Hang on, hang on, till we learn more from the PMA press releases. ;-)

Kit

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Martin
Howard
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:49 PM
To: Leica Users Group LUG
Subject: [Leica] Leica does it again



Leica never ceases to amaze me.  They cancel the production of the 
M6TTL in favour of bringing out the M6P (or whatever it will be called) 
which has less useful features and ignores some of the lessons they've 
learnt during the production/design run of the M6/TTL/M7 years (lack of 
on/off switch, old style rewind, and old (pre M6) shutter dial to name 
three examples).

To boot, they offer the finishes which people seem to desire the most 
(if the LUG is anything to go by) on one camera only -- while reserving 
the .58x and .85x for chrome cameras.

They then follow this up with a poorly designed manual winder that 
ignores the lessons learnt about *those* in the past, what, 30 years? 
priced way out into the stratosphere.  The fact that it is backwards 
compatible with the older M4-M6TTL cameras is just about pointless when 
the damn thing costs more than most s/h bodies in the first place.

It's like this company *wants* to go out of business.

Can't BMW buy out Leica and beat some sense into these scarfmakers?

M.

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