Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They ceased production of the M bodies not the lenses. Leica Midland, who made many of the M lenses, saw the writing on the wall with the M body going out of production. So Leica Midland proposed to move production to Canada where, at the time, labour costs were much cheaper than Germany. Damn good thing they did to. John Collier On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > bringing us back to the age of disco... > > in 1975 when leica dropped the M-line completely, was the intent > at that time to retool to build the M4-2 in canada in 1977, or was > that idea > an afterthought? and why did they release the fabulous f1.0 noctilux > in 1976 > when they had no camera with which to use it? - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html