Re: [Leica] Leica M5

["steve lehuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

For what it's worth Sherry Krauter's personal camera is an M5
Steve
Annapolis

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>From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M5
>Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2000, 4:52 PM
>

> 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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