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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica does it again
From: "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:16:49 -0600
References: <F06D46F8-4780-11D7-AA29-000393802534@mac.com>

Why don't you buy 'em Martin?

Make a camera, and one will still find a reason to hate it.

Chris
New Orleans

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Howard" 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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