Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Texas Leica
From: raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:57:51 +0100

Date sent:      	Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:04:58 -0500
To:             	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
From:           	Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject:        	Re: [Leica] Re: Texas Leica
Send reply to:  	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

> At 09:33 PM 1999-01-27 +0100, Raimo Korhonen wrote:
> >I think that the original Texas Leica was the 1953 Graflex KE-4(1) 
> >combat camera for 5.5x7cm exposures on 70mm film. 
> >Interchangeable lenses, too.
> 
> Designed, I might add, by Hubert Nerwin, Director of Camera Design at Zeiss
> Ikon from 1936 until 1945.  Nerwin is the father of the modern SLR, having
> produced the Contax S.
> 
> Marc
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
> 
Right - I think the Combat Graflex is also called Gulliverīs Contax.

Raimo
(photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen)