Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, You have raised my curiosity now. What sort of thinking went into your decision to opt for a black red dot? John LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote: > > When I met with Hanns-Peter Cohn at PMA in February, he pointed to the black > Leica dot on the prototype LHSA camera and compared it with the red dot on > his Millennium. He said, "Bill, surely there must be some mistake that the > dot is not red. After all, the red Leica dot is Leica corporate identity. > I assured him that there was no mistake, this was what I specified for the > camera. He then replied that this was OK if this was what we really wanted. > And now you know how the black dot was born. > > Bill Rosauer > BTW, it is made of metal and painted black, not molded plastic.