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Subject: [Leica] Fred Spira is Dead
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat Sep 29 10:01:44 2007
References: <a3f189160709151614y50e69c81k76bf416e94fca6a5@mail.gmail.com><20070916000703.RVDU27100.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net><200709160057.l8G0vIII079061@server1.waverley.reid.org><46ECA7AC.4090705@san.rr.com> <20070929164838.GF18230@panix.com>

Rei,

I have an Exacta bellows attachment and a couple of associated lenses from 
Spiratone.  My Exacta is dead, but I still have a functional Exa.  I will be 
tempted to try this setup when time permits.  I always associated Spiratone 
products with low cost.  Perhaps they will perform well beyond what one 
would expect.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fred Spira is Dead


>
> I am resurrecting this slightly dead thread because
> i ordered fred's book "The History of Photography
> As Seen Through the Spira Collection" and it arrived
> this week.  it's a very nice large-format coffee-table book
> with many fine color photographs of important and
> offbeat cameras.  A fine way to remember Mr. Spira.
>
> -rei
>
> On Sep15 20:49, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>> Marc,
>>
>> Fred made it possible for us to have decent quality imported photo
>> accessories at reasonable prices. I dealt with
>> his store in NY when I lived there.  With his stuff you actually could
>> combine the words 'cheap' and 'good'.
>>
>> He had some fantastic connections in Japan.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>> Marc James Small wrote:
>> >Fred Spira of Spiratone died on 2 SEP 2007.  I only met him a couple
>> >of times -- others knew him better. The obits are full of
>> >inflated claims but it is hard to overstate his impact on the US
>> >photography industry from the late 1940's to the late 1980's.  He left
>> >one hell of a hole.
>> >
>> >Marc
>> >
>> >msmall@aya.yale.edu
>> >Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>
> -- 
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>
>
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