Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/10
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At 09:40 AM 10/10/96 -0400, Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote:
>The Alpa 12, a 645 medium format camera, will cost, according to their Web
>page, $10,000 (US), including lens. To read the rest of the information
>about it, their page is at: <http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/alpa12.html>. If you
>think Leicas and their users are eccentric, wait till you read this stuff!
>One tidbit, to whet your appetite: The camera allows the use of Hasselblad
>lenses, but in order to do that you have to have the lens modified, which
>makes the lens unusable on the Blad! Also, for a while they talked about
>having an uncoupled rangefinder! (Now they seem to have come to their
>senses about that.)
Yep, this is elitism above and beyond. They seem to be designing the thing
by the seat of their pants. Leica looks like an "All American
entrepreneurial effort by comparison.
--
Roger Beamon, Naturalist & Photographer
Docent: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Leica Historical Society Of America
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