Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 war
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:45:35 -0500

At 09:43 AM 2/26/2000 -0600, Fred Zimmerman wrote:
>  The adoption of Nikon lenses is discussed in a fine book by Robert
>Rotoloni, The Nikon Rangefinder Camera: an Illustrated History of the Nikon
>Rangefinder Cameras, Lenses and Accessories, 2nd ed., Hove, 1983. 

And this is the tale that was concocted to hood-wink the photo editors back
in the states.  The tale is not entirely false, just pumped up quite a bit.
 The test WAS run, as Duncan didn't want to come back from Korea with a
bunch of fuzzy and unuseable shots.  Once he saw that the Japanese lenses
produced images as good as his German glass he was content.  The rest was
eye-wash for the home crew.

Marc

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