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Subject: Re: [Leica] Japanese special edition of new Leica M
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:16:59 -0500
References: <LNBBLBNFHNEHGFKFMALGIEMNEGAB.tim@KairosPhoto.com>

Tim Atherton wrote:
>>Tim Atherton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Okay - am I wrong here. They've stopped making the M6 - correct?
>>>
>>>Now they're stopping making the M6TTL.
>>>
>>>So which is the mechanical M still going to be made?
>>
>><http://www.web.nshkk.co.jp/brands/leica/news/mp6.htm>
>><http://www.nippon-camera.com/zassi/z0303/0303.html>
>><http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004b7o>
>>
> 
> Merely a one off special edition Lucien, as far as all can tell, - for all
> intents and purposes Leica has stopped making a mechanical M camera as a
> course of regular production - stop putting off your grieving Lucien, all
> your hopes against hope won't prevent it... it will only hurt all the more
> once your acts of denial can no longer hold up in the face of cold hard
> reality...
> 
> They'll probably keep making these little vanity models every now and then
> as a money/prestige spinner as long as the tools and dies are all still
> around and someone is willing to commission them. But the M mechanical
> camera as a normal production model will soon be nothing more than a faint
> memory :-)

Tim,

Wait until PMA and then you can decide whether it is just a special 
edition camera or not :-).

Rolfe

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