Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/11

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Subject: [Leica] Pan-X
From: Bob_Maxey@mtn.3com.com
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:38:39 -0700

>>I hope the list will tolerate a question about the Hasselblad Pan-X.
> After all, it is a rangefinder and with its 7cm wide coverage on 35mm
> film, it really isn't in competition with the M6's.

It is a Japanese camera with a Japanese lens, and I am not the least bit
impressed with it. How about a Japanese Leicaflex... what would it be like?
As far as it not being in competition with the M6, you got that right. The
M6 is in a far different place than the Hasselblad.

Here is a question for all of you. If the Internet was around when Leitz
set up a plant to make cameras in Canada, would there be an adverse
reaction to it? I suspect there would be, and the comments about 'Fine
Canadian Optics' would be a flying.

RM