Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/06
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At 10:29 AM 9/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Leica's response will indeed be the rumored SM camera
>with an improved range finder, built in metering with TTL...anything else?
There is no way they're going to do that. If they do, I'll eat a lens cap!
>You know Stephen, in this era of mega-mergers amongst unlikely
>partners, would it be completely crazy to wonder about Nikon and Leica
>doing something together...Leica using Nikon's improved rangefinder with
>zoom and producing an entirely new M line?
Now that's an intriguing idea. But I'd say go with Canon. Better technology
( IS and more mature USM motors). Canon could take a lesson from Leica on
rugged lenses throughout the whole line.
Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
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