..........it appears in today's issue of Amateur Photographer (cover date 23 February) in the UK. No specification details are printed.

When you've seen it, you might take the view that all of the fuss recently was much ado about nothing! Think Nikon FM2n -v- Nikon FM3a and you get the picture.

-- Mark Jones (DavidMarkJones@aol.com), February 16, 2002

Answers

How's that then? The magazine isn't out until tuesday/wednesday of next week?

Another hoax?

-- Phil Andrew (philandrew@hotmail.com), February 16, 2002.

No hoax, subscribers get the magazine mailed direct, usually arriving on the Saturday before the Tuesday it hits the newsagents' shelves.

-- Mark Jones (DavidMarkJones@aol.com), February 16, 2002.

mark: why don't you post a scan?

-- stefan randlkofer (geesbert@yahoo.com), February 16, 2002.

I'd be happy to, Stefan, but I'm afraid I don't have a scanner!

-- Mark Jones (DavidMarkJones@aol.com), February 16, 2002.

Sorry Mark,I didn't know that,I must subscribe.

I WANT TO SEE IT NOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!.......pleeeease.

-- Phil Andrews (philandrew@hotmail.com), February 16, 2002.

Alright alright, stop yelling, here it is: the Lecia M7 . . .

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), February 16, 2002.

. . . not! Sorry, couldn't help myself; I am so ashamed . . . .

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), February 16, 2002.

OOOOOOHHH WHY??

I got all my mates round,opened a few bottles of Champagne......"look everyone I know wht it looks like.......",but no.

NO.

-- Phil Andrews (philandrew@hotmail.com), February 16, 2002.

Hey, that's a cool M-7. Real retro.

The ground hog just saw its shadow and the debut of the real M-7 has been postponed for 6 weeks.

-- Alex Shishin (shishin@pp.iij4-u.or.jp), February 17, 2002.

Can everyone just stop posting ridiculous topics on the M7 and wait till 24 Feb? I am sick of it. Don't expect it to be anything special with features anywhere close to the FM3a. That would be too good for Leica. They have to stay at least 20 years in the past to retain their reputation.

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), February 18, 2002.

The FM3A is an SLR and as such, there are many SLRs, including manual ones, that offer far more features. As far as the FM3A, so what? It is no great trick to get these features in a large and bulky manual SLR.

Also, I can't use Leica M lenses on an FM3A. Since I don't have Nikon lenses, I don't particularly care about the FM3A, other than to observe that it is nice that they rae still making non-AF cameras.

-- Eliot (erosen@lij.edu), February 18, 2002.

"As far as the FM3A, so what? It is no great trick to get these features in a large and bulky manual SLR."

Just for perspective - an FM3A with a lot of Nikon's prime AIS metal lenses in the focal-lengths equivalent to Leica M weighs LESS than an M6 with the "equivalent" Leica lens (20 2.8, 28 2.8, 85 f/2, 85 1.4 e.g.) - and bulks about the same as an M6TTL with an accessory finder. Leica still wins the weigh race with most 35s and 50s mounted (not sure about the 1.4 50).

RE Amateur Photographer - Denver-area readers should note it's available through the Barnes & Noble at 16th St. and Tremont in downtown Denver - but runs about 2 weeks behind the UK publication date (on the stands now - Feb. 3) So the M7 will probably already be visible on Leica's website before we get the issue in question here.

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), February 19, 2002.