Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V20 #198

["onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>]

So, in waiting for an AE M6, can't Leica go back and make some new M3's? No
meter, 3 frames, ahhhhhh, I'm starting to get weepy.

Chris Williams

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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V20 #198


> Welcome back to Erwin.  Perhaps the discussion can be kept civil and Erwin
> will stick around for some time.
> Leica has not made their own filters for quite some time, and some of the
> literature Leitz put out in the 70's and 80's was misleading on this.
> Perhaps Erwin could give us some insight here as to who is making filters
for
> Leica, or are there various suppliers?
> On several visits to the Solms factory, I have noticed many boxes with the
> HOYA name on them.  I presume these to be lens blanks to be made into
> elements.
> As to the VanRiper article, I specifically asked Herr Cohn about the MF
and
> M6 AE camera.  I reported this in VF in the Photokina 2000 story.  He
denied
> that Leica has any plans for a MF camera and that his discussion at dinner
> with VanRiper and several other journalists was misinterpreted.  As to the
M6
> AE, he would not commit his remarks to be published.  I have been told for
at
> least the last three years by various sources that this camera is coming,
but
> I wonder in who's lifetime.  I am always amazed at how long it takes Leica
to
> do what others have done 20 years ago.  For instance, SLR's, hot shoes,
> rewind cranks, TTL flash metering, etc. Back to the future!  Not that I
don't
> love Leica, but it can be an extremely frustrating wait for innovation to
> arrive.
>
> Bill Rosauer