Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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. bill, now, you know b.d. and other contentious luggers are just going to cover that black dot with some red tape! you can please all of the people some of the time... ho! guy