Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: the new YASUHARA T981
From: Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:53:52 -0000

I wish I could remember. They said that if they'd made the original M6
Electronic they (Leica) probably wouln't be 'alive' today. So I'm sure it
would have been something akin to 'not wanting to put all their eggs into
one basket' (an old English expression meaning keeping your options open.

Jem

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lucien [SMTP:lucien@ubi.edu]
> 
> Jeremy Kime wrote:
> > 
> > Lucien,
> > The incredible part I think is the price, very inexpensive (compared to
> our
> > leicas) along with getting Copal to re-design a shutter mechanism for
> them,
> > the small scale of production there is amazing.
> 
> Jem,
> 
> What did they say at the Leica seminar about the Copal monopole ?
> ;-)
> 
> Lucien