Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Black Dots
From: John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:04:10 -0400
References: <24.622d315.267328c8@aol.com>

Bill,
You have raised my curiosity now.  What sort of thinking went into your
decision to opt for a black red dot?
John

LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote:
> 
> When I met with Hanns-Peter Cohn at PMA in February, he pointed to the black
> Leica dot on the prototype LHSA camera and compared it with the red dot on
> his Millennium.  He said, "Bill, surely there must be some mistake that the
> dot is not red.   After all, the red Leica dot is Leica corporate identity.
> I assured him that there was no mistake, this was what I specified for the
> camera.  He then replied that this was OK if this was what we really wanted.
> And now you know how the black dot was born.
> 
> Bill Rosauer
> BTW, it is made of metal and painted black, not molded plastic.

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