Re: [Leica] Leica M5

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

Some people just did not like the larger body. This, however, did not kill
the M5. Most of the credit goes to the CL for that. Almost all the same
features at a cheaper price. I think Leica was hoping to find new customers
with the CL not take customers away from its premium (read money making) M
line. The only people who made money from the CL were Minolta who made it
for Leica.

John Collier

> From: Barry Hobden <bv215@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:08:52 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M5
> 
> Gabriele,
> 
> I, too, am at a loss to understand this. The M5 was one of the
> best-engineered and best-built items in the Leica line (rivalling
> the M3 in build quality). However, I suspect that the introduction
> of too many *real* innovations in one model was just too much for
> conservative-minded leicaphiles to accept. What puzzles me most is
> the M5's general lack of popularity even today.
> 
> Here on the LUG, the M5 is essentially unacknowleged. It's like a
> dirty little family secret that no one wants to discuss openly. I
> suspect that when the collectors line up their M-bodies on the
> shelves of their glass-fronted display cases, they don't like to
> see anything standing a bit taller than the others.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Barry
> 
> ( ;{
> 
> --- Gabriele_M?ller <hepac@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> Hello all!
>> 
>> I for my person never understood why so many people did not like
>> the M5.
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