X-POP3-Rcpt: leofoo@homer
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:33:16 -0800
From: Stephen Gandy <cameras@jetlink.net>
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To: Foo Pak Sooi Leonard <leofoo@mir.com.my>
Subject: Nikon FM2n Year of the Dog

Hi, Hope all is going well for you after that hospital visit you told me about a few months ago. I would like to disagree with you on your statement:

"We have not seen an official special production Nikon camera for quite a while. The previous much hyped Nikon FM2T 'Year of the Dog' cannot be considered as official, as the rare 300 units was the idea of the Taiwanese distributors." - the fact remains the Year of the Dog left the Nikon factory as a Nikon factory product in a Nikon box with a Nikon warranty.

if an idea outside the Nikon factory makes a Nikon not "official," then the NASA cameras would be "not official" too, as well as the half frame FM's for the Norwegian police force, the FEA's for National Geographic, or the KS-80A for the US Navy, the white leather Nikon F's. Is anyone claiming the M6 Jaguar is not "official" because it was not originally Leica's idea? I don't think so.

Please take this note as a point of honest disagreement, not as some big deal argument. After all, we are only talking about Nikons, not something important.

Regards,
Stephen Gandy

* leofoo : I accept fair comment from a entirely different viewpoint: That is why with Stephen's approval, I am publishing the mail that Stephen wrote to me where hi presents his. But again I have to stress here: I am a consumer, not thoroughly a follower. The F5 50th Anniversary Model may make me cough out some money to get one as a collective item. But after seeing all the various 'Year of the XXX' in the Leica M6 for the Hong Kong and Taiwan market, personally a FM2T with 'Year of the Dog 'name tag - although it may be scarce in number and look 'special', but when you tend to inter-relate it with a commercial idea from a regional distributor (Remind me about the F2A 25th Anniversary episode) - that doesn't inspired me a lot. But whatever it is, it is a Nikon FM2T in nature, how much premium you are willing to put on top of the engraved emblem, that is entirely up to you.

P.S. Anyone has a FM2T for sale ?

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