Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I now have the Leica History 1925-1965 CD. For anyone on this list who still admits to being a collector (keep your head down) it is an excellent resource. Some documents are later than the stated timeframe, as late as 1972. About half of the 170 documents are in German. The publications reproduced are catalogs, brochures, price lists, instructions, etc. The instruction pages will be especially useful to the user-collector, as such data is not always readily available. Reproduction of the documents-color,sharpness, etc looks excellent on my monitor. Some of the documents appear a little aged, or have writing on them, but no doubt many are quite rare, and to have so many in one place is a real treat. The CD was edited by Erwin Puts and is distributed in the US by Marc James Small, both frequent contributors to the LUG. I'm sure they can assist you if you would like one. One other note. When I first got the CD, I could not get all the documents to load and it ran very slowly. I don't use Acrobat or PDF files much, and had never looked at the version. With some difficulty (Adobe's site is pretty busy) I upgraded to version 3.01. Now it works flawlessly and really flies! (Even on my Mac 7200/75, speaking of collector's items!) Nick Hunter