Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Please, NO CANON VS. NIKON. Please, NO POLITICS. It costs me a lot of time to participate in mailing lists, and I really am getting tired of having to wade through Canon vs. Nikon or Democrat vs. Republican threads. Now, Chevvy vs. Ford or Coke vs. Pepsi...I can't say I'd enjoy either one, but at least it would be something that hasn't been done to death 500 times already. To change the subject a bit, here's an interesting tidbit I learned from the Elcan press packet I requested: when Leitz was considering different Canadian towns as the location of Ernst Leitz Canada in the '50s, the two finalists were Midland and a town called Smiths Falls. One of the reasons why Midland was chosen was because "Midland" has the same number of letters as "Wetzlar," meaning that no change would have to be made in the size or location of the engravings on the lenses. - --Mike