Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin-- Hang on, hang on, till we learn more from the PMA press releases. ;-) Kit - -----Original Message----- 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. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html