Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 yes......M7 no
From: Martin Howard <mvh@media.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:14:18 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Bill Erfurth wrote:

> The M8 (or what ever Herr Cohn chooses to call it)
> will be an extremely sophisticated point and shoot
> with a fixed 28-70 zoom lens.

Oh please!  One of the strongest selling points of the Leica rangefinder is
that it has small, fast, *interchangable lenses*.  Like they're going to do
away with that for an M6 *replacement*.

M.

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