Leica M6 articles from 1984

[alphonse2501]

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At beginning I am searching for advertisements of Leica M6 from 80s to 90s, and then I see a comment on DPReview:

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This brings back old times. I was an editor on Popular Photography magazine in 1984, and was sent to the Leitz factory in Wetzlar (West Germany) to write about the M6, shortly before it was introduced at Photokina. Almost everyone was on vacation, and I worked alone to take pictures of the M6 in the factory studio. It was kind of fun.

 

It gets my curious that what was the review (or article) looked like on the magazine in 1984. I dig into Google Books to search old issues of Popular Photography. Find out the article is on the issue of October 1984:

POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY OCTOBER 1984
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PAGE 72

From Leitz, the Leica M6
Classic rangefinder 35 now has through-the-lens meter with LED readout; fast lenses are added to R4 SLR lineup
By Steve Pollock 

(The first name is matched!)

 

Allow me to cite one paragraph abouts price:

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The M6, like most Leitz rangefinder equipment, will made by Leitz Canada. It is scheduled to be available this month. Price in the U.S. has not yet been determined, but in Germany the M6 camera body will cpst about 3,000 Deutschmark (approcimately $1,050) -- equivalent to the price of the M4-P plus accessory Leicameter. At first, both the M4-P and M6 will be produced, with the future M4-P depending upon market demand.

Based on CPI inflation calculator, $1050 USD in October 1984 has the sale buying power as $2959.62 in September 2022.

 

 

Add an extra article from New York Times (find it when I want to search the date of Photokina 1984)

CAMERA; NEW PRODUCTS MAKE A DEBUT AT PHOTOKINA

By John Durniak

Nov. 11, 1984

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The second camera is an improved version of the classic Leica M rangefinder camera - a rangefinder model that is not an SLR. The new model features through-the-lens metering and has one of the quietest shutters ever. Leitz, the manufacturer, has built it to stay within the M system so that all but a few accessories (lenses that protrude into the metering system) manufactured over the last 30 years will fit this camera body.

 

[Likaleica]

Very interesting.  Thank you for posting.

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