Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica bug
From: Lucien <lucien@ubi.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:58:52 +0200

Alastair Firkin wrote:

>In 1981 I bought my second SLR, the new Minolta XD7 

>In Hobart, I bought my first decent zoom a Minolta 35-70 and
>shot lots of Nature/landscape stuff.

Alastair,

I started in 1980 with exactly the same camera and lens.

Wasn't the XD7 and the R4 sharing the same body ?
And the 37-70/3,5 Minolta and Leica sharing the same glasses ?
(But not the coating, if I remember well.)

Minolta was the Troyan Horse !

;-)

Great post.

Lucien