Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/08

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Passport vs. Leica hits the sand
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:11:04 -0700

At 10:34 AM 6/7/96 -0600, you wrote:

>In my opinion, Leica better concentrate on technical innovations and reduce
>emphasis on gimmicks like the Passport and M6J.

We have to remember that the M6-J is a major technial improvement in the M
series. It's just too bad it's a collector. Rumors will no doubt persist for
years, until Leica finally breaks down and builds one for the rest of us,
that it's going to be a production camera some day. (We can hope, can't we?)

The Passport is not gimmick. When you have a $15,000 lens like the 400 Apo
Telyt, it's probably comforting that for at least three years you can really
use it.

>Don't get me wrong, but for the $1200 Leica would charge to "fix" the SL
>that went down to earth like a tomahawk, I can get an SL2 in mint condition.
>That is why the guy did not want his camera "fixed".

$1,200 was pretty cheap to fix an SL-Mot, 90 Summicron and repaint the
motor. The fact that it could be fixed at all was the point, anyway. This
thing (amazing falling Leica) DID happen back in the 70s, before Passport
was introduced anyway.


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Eric Welch
Grants Pass Daily Courier