Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was lucky, Larry; 3 1/2 years Navy active duty between the wars - Korea and Vietnam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Cc: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 6:46 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 38, Issue 405 > > On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Seth wrote: > >> Oh you're THAT old Larry? ;-) > > I prefer being old to the alternative. I'm a Korean War vet. At the > base PX it was possible to pick up a Nikon S with a f2.0 50mm Nikkor > lens, engraved on the top plate "Made in Occupied Japan," for about > $125. A Leica IIIf with a f3.5 50mm Elmar was about twice the price. > I passed up the Nikon. After all, how good could a Japanese camera > be? It wasn't until I returned home that I learned that David Duncan > had "discovered" the quality of the Japanese cameras and that they > were the rage of the photographic community. > > Larry Z > >> >> I recall, as a kid, my dad telling me - and I don't know to this >> day if it >> is/was fact or apocryphal - that before WWII there was a Japanese town >> called Usa where much manufacture was done, so that they could mark >> products: "made in Usa" >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> >> To: <lug@leica-users.org> >> Cc: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> >> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:42 AM >> Subject: [Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc. >> >> >>> >>> On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Chris wrote: >>> >>>> The "pro" >>>> gear is still "Made in Japan". >>> >>> >>> When I was a kid,"Made in Japan" had a pejorative ring to it. Only >>> cheap stuff was made in Japan. >>> >>> Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.17/1934 - Release Date: 02/04/09 08:24:00