Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Fuji building an M
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:01:52 -0800

Leica needs to do something.  Perhaps Herr Cohen was just feeding you
propaganda.
I think the cloth shutter was nice 50 years ago. But every manufacturer has
a more modern one, so why not Leica?  Surely they can make it quiet.  The
"me too" scenario is nonsense.

Peter K

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From: LEICAMAN56@aol.com [mailto:LEICAMAN56@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 8:11 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Fuji building an M


The cloth focal plane shutter is the essence of what the M camera and what 
Leica is all about since the Leica I of 1925.  You can't mess with 
perfection.  I told Herr Cohn this when I first met him at last year's PMA 
and he seemed to get the point.  Certainly Stefan Daniel, then M product 
manager and now overall product manager, understands this.  If you take away

the whisper quiet cloth focal plane shutter, what do you have?  Another me 
too camera.  Might as well have Konica or Canon or any other Japanese 
manufacturer make the M camera, as you have taken away its soul.
Would I like to have a CL2 camera with a vertically traveling metal bladed 
shutter, higher sync, AE, etc., as a companion to my M6's?  You bet, but 
don't take away the M6!
And then there are the lenses.  Collectively, some of the world's greatest 
glass for one of the world's greatest cameras.  But that's a whole other 
story.
LONG LIVE THE M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill Rosauer