Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica size
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Wed Nov 16 06:18:54 2005
 
Mark writes:

To me the Leica philosophy of camera size went out with the M system in
1954.
To me by far the TRUE size of a Leica is the size of a Barnack. A Leica
thread mount camera. Fits in your pocket. Not so M. too big. Clunky.

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The Barnack Leicas won't fit in any normal pocket unless they have a 
collapsible Elmar lens. For me the ideal pocket camera is the Rollei 35SE. 
The lens is better than the Elmar too. Leica once built prototypes of a 
Rollei 35 size camera but abandoned it in favor of the M.

Larry Z
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