Re: Will Leica bring the M6 film camera back to life?
Desmolicious wrote:
As I mentioned on l-forum, this is the quote I do not understand:
As I understand it . . the problem Leica have making the MP (and the M-A to a lesser extent) is that many of the parts were made by suppliers who no longer exist, so creating another camera with the same internals would be pretty stupid.
Why cannot the new supplier make the current MP parts?
Because there's no new supplier for the mechanical parts, Leica is making those for the new M6. Leica has all the original machines to make a new M6 from scratch (per Hugh Brownstone's YT interview with the Leica marketing director), and it would be my assumption they don't have the machines in house to make the MP parts. That could be a wrong assumption, though, and Leica may start tooling their own parts for the MP and M-A as well.
The supplier reference is for sourcing semiconductors. It's not super clear, but they didn't say curcuit boards, just semiconductors. So they probably found new suppliers for semiconductors and are making their own new M6 circuit boards in-house.
Oct 20, 2022 at 03:47 PM
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