Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] Audi designed Leica T
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:47:11 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: 
Subject: [Leica] Audi designed Leica T 

>Invoking a prestige automobile designer as the inspiration for ?a new 
>camera is par for Leica. The first Leica mass market digitals, the Digilux 
>and the Digilux Zoom, were allegedly >designed by Porsche. Basically they 
>were repackaged Fuji 1700 and 1700 Zoom cameras sold at a 50% markup in 
>price. As I said, par for the course. 
>Larry Z 
>- - -? 
 
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And why go to car designers, when 90% of new cars are so horribly ugly.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt



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