Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: Subject: [Leica] Audi designed Leica T >Invoking a prestige automobile designer as the inspiration for ?a new >camera is par for Leica. The first Leica mass market digitals, the Digilux >and the Digilux Zoom, were allegedly >designed by Porsche. Basically they >were repackaged Fuji 1700 and 1700 Zoom cameras sold at a 50% markup in >price. As I said, par for the course. >Larry Z >- - -? ============================================================================================================================================== And why go to car designers, when 90% of new cars are so horribly ugly. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt