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Re: [OM] OM Bodies and Lenses FS

Subject: Re: [OM] OM Bodies and Lenses FS
From: John Hudson <jahudson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:33:41 -0700
frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:06:14PM -0700, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> 
> > And  what is with that R8 big bertha? The M7 is sweet though.
> 
> I´d want to report about a interview of a Leica developper.
> He said that the size of the M8 was carefully selected.
> Leica-R-lenses are solid, big and heavy. So They need a
> appropriate counterpart. It is not OM system.
> The two interesting things: R6.2 and R7 died because the
> manufacturing of the shutter was discontinued by the supplier.

M8 .......... is the House of Leitz looking beyond the recently unveiled
M7? 

jh

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