Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 60's Merc?
From: "Bill Larsen" <ohlen@lightspeed.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:46:42 -0700

Jason:

I cannot find a 60 Merc in any of my camera guides.  Was this a rangefinder?
Who made it?  What lenses did it take?  (I am assuming that we are not talking
automobiles here since there was nothing notable about a 1960 Mercury).

Jason Hall writes:

>
>You're not comparing like with like, but I'd take the 60's Merc over a
>modern one any day, faults and all.  Keep the high tech, clinical modern
>rubbish, its got no soul, no character. <snip> I