[Leica] Leica size

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

I read somewhere that Heinz Waaske (spelling???), the inventor of the 
Rollei 35, went to various companies before placing his design with Rollei,
I believe he worked for Edixa, and they let him offer the design to 
other firms, including Leitz Wetzlar.
Wonderful little cameras, very pocketable - pretty good is the Ricoh GR 
series too, very flat and compact with  excellent lenses.
Douglas

Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Mark writes:
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> To me the Leica philosophy of camera size went out with the M system in
> 1954.
> To me by far the TRUE size of a Leica is the size of a Barnack. A Leica
> thread mount camera. Fits in your pocket. Not so M. too big. Clunky.
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> The Barnack Leicas won't fit in any normal pocket unless they have a 
> collapsible Elmar lens. For me the ideal pocket camera is the Rollei 
> 35SE. The lens is better than the Elmar too. Leica once built 
> prototypes of a Rollei 35 size camera but abandoned it in favor of the M.
>
> Larry Z
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