Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/05

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Subject: [Leica] Internet Service Interruption/Zeppelins
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Wed Dec 5 09:16:17 2007
References: <200712051459.lB5Ev9cG014458@server1.waverley.reid.org> <1196867716.4756c084dcbc7@panthermail.uwm.edu>
 
At 10:15 AM 12/5/2007, amr3@uwm.edu wrote:


 >I should have been more precise.  I meant the 
original Graf airship was in the
 >ad, not the Count.

Due to Eckener's friendship with Ernst Leitz II, 
the cameras were commonly used on LZ-127 GRAF 
ZEPPELIN and these were featured in a number of 
Leitz ads.   The deck binoculars were supplied by 
Carl Zeiss Jena and CZJ used illustrations of 
some of these in use on GZI in some of its adverts.

Marc


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