Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] Commutative M7, Porsche, and Porsche
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Nov 6 13:10:16 2004
 
> 
> - Phong
> The firm is not related, but the Porches are. Up until 1972, Ferdinand A.
> Porche headed the design department at Porche A.G. in Stuttgart.  Then he
> opened 
> Porche Design Gmbh, parent to today's Porche Design.  My monitors are 
> marked
> "design by F.A. Porche."
> 
> Cameras by F.A. Porche include the Rollei QZ35, and the Fujifinepix 
> digital,
> which we remember is the OEM of the first Leica Digitals.
> 
> 
There are similarities in the DNA between the red 911 cars and the red
stripe on the Nikon F3.

They've done swatches.
And swabs.

And smears.

And samples.

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/
In reply to: Message from SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com) ([Leica] Commutative M7, Porsche, and Porsche)