Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M4 and M4-2
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:36:25 -0400

At 08:53 PM 1998-08-21 -0500, Eric Welch wrote:
>But wasn't there a period (SL2 and M5) in
>the mid-70s where Leica almost closed its doors?

Until the early 1960's, the Leitz family took a modest fortune out of the
Leitz factory.  From the early 1960's to the early 1980's, the Leitz family
lost a modest fortune under-writing the Leitz factory.  Which is, after
all, why they sold it and why there is no longer a Leitz camera factory!

Marc


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