Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]p.s. the blue-grey vs. amber rangefinder glass only applies to the original m7 model. the early m7's were initiailly corrected with dark "speigelunger" glass to try and correct the whiteout problem. this dark glass m7 rangefinder was in production till late last year. the new rangefinder started in production around february with the intro. of the mp which is identical to the current m7 rangefinder. they are now back to amber glass. - ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "lennie falcon" <lenniefalcon@cclmgmt.com> Reply-To: <lenniefalcon@cclmgmt.com> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 11:32:24 -0700 Re:[Leica]M7 info wnated the way you can tell which rangefinder you have is: look at the rangefinder widow with reflective viewwing (a light source at 90-180 degrees from the horizontal plane of the glass. if the glass is grey/blue in reflected viewing, it is an m7 with the "old" m6 rangefinder produced with anti-reflective coated windows. if the rangefinder window is amber toned then you have the new corrected rangefinder in the mp. the number stuff is horseshit. leica batches numbers for production runs years in advance. production runs (the finite number of same model units produced to fill a sale future forecast) are based forward deliveries. it is therefore possible to have a production run using a group of older serial numbers if sales unexpectedly slowed down. rgds, falcon ____________________________________________________________ 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html