Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica?s website lists the M-A with no indication that it?s discontinued. The B&H site gives the black and the silver models as back-ordered and as available in 7-10 days, respectively. I guess none of this rules out the possibility that Leica has killed it, though. It?s interesting to me that the description of the M-A on Leica?s site nowhere states that it?s a film camera, only referring to it as ?purely mechanical? and, at the end, noting that since both the M system and Tri-X film were introduced in 1954, and Tri-X is an iconic PJ film, a roll of TX is included with each M-A. It?s like the ?If you have to ask the price, you can?t afford it? trope. If you have to ask whether the M-A is a film camera, you don?t deserve to be told. And if Leica wanted to make an un-metered film camera that would be a throwback to the days of M-based photojournalism, one that would appeal to well-heeled nostalgia buffs, why not give it all the classic styling cues of the M3, like they did with an LHSA anniversary set a few years back, complete with a retro-styled 50 ?Lux? My 1958 M3 DS practically radiates street cred just sitting on my desk, and when I go out with it hanging from my neck, I feel like I?m channeling Capa! (Excuse the snark, please.) ?howard > On Jan6, 2020, at 2355, Mark Kronquist via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Did Leica kill it? > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information