Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The Spanish magazine Foto has a photo in their February issue > of a camera marked "Leica M6 AE" which they say will be introduced > this year at photokina. Since I only recently re-subscribed to the LUG, I have no idea if this has been discussed here. I was yucking it up with another Leica photog the other day. He said that the reason for the TTL M6 wasn't so much TTL, but to justify the larger body that was needed to fit the electronics from the R8. He said that the electronics for the M6 meter were no longer available from the manufacturer and Leitz had no option but to use the R8 electronics for the meter. Those electronics required more space, hence the larger body, and to disguise the real reason for the larger body, they added the TTL metering feature. Perhaps the larger body will also permit AE. Progress, yuk. Peter Jon White Peter White Cycles 666 Mass Ave Acton, MA 01720 978 635 0969 Voice 978 929 9654 Fax http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com mailto:Peter@PeterWhiteCycles.com "Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://www.antiwar.com http://www.mises.org