Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?
From: "Dante A. Stella" <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:38:02 -0500
References: <3.0.6.32.20010130214411.009b3100@pop.roanoke.infi.net>

While we're on the subject, let's not forget about the faster, better Zeiss
optics (at least at that time), combined finder, and bayonet mount!

Marc James Small wrote:

> At 06:39 PM 1/30/2001 -0600, goldman@math.umn.edu wrote:
> >       Do you have a source for this.  I thought they were all Nikon as
> >that is what most of their people used, and that Leica people like Bill
> >Allard bought their own equipment.
>
> Nikon was busy making Japanese battleship rangefinders and the like in the
> 1920's and '30's and wasn't selling cameras.  That is when Leica ruled at
> National Geographic, and it continued to do so through the Second World
> War, though most of the other major magazines went over to Contax due to
> the greater reliability of the Contax shutter.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!

In reply to: Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?)