Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01

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Subject: Re: Vs: [Leica] Leica R death
From: telyt560@cswebmail.com
Date: 1 Oct 2000 18:56:59 -0700

On Sun, 01 October 2000, Martin Howard wrote:

> 
> Dan Cardish jotted down the following:
> 
> > Nothing fancy, just a minimum of controls, a TTL lightmeter at most.  Like
> > the R6.2, but even more basic and smaller.
> 
> How can you get more basic than the R6?!??  Short of removing the shutter
> speed dial and replacing it with the slot-width control knob of the
> nullseries?
> 
> M.
> 

Leica could eliminate the TTL flash and center-weighted metering, but I can't see that would cut costs much.  Likewise the motor/winder connections.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
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