Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:14 AM 5/11/98 +0800, you wrote: >auto-rewinding motor drive, the botched attempt to move towards an AF system >etc etc?? For that matter the original Leica was not the first 35mm still What botched attmempt? The point and shoots? >implementation of the concept. Should we chastise Leica for that? The >Germans copied photographic technology wholesale from the French and the >British (and vice-versa): do we like our Leicas any less for it? The Leica was the first commercially successful 35mm camera. There was a 35mm camera a year before the UR Leica, but it didn't use the same size frame. ========= Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO Even paranoids have real enemies. - Delmore Schwartz