Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: uninspired Leica ads
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:14:33 -0600

>Seemingly, to Leica, eveyone else falls into the category of
>wealthy happy-snappers who are content to shoot fast film through slow
>zooms priced in Germany but made in Japan so long as there's a programme
>mode and a Leica logo.

Isn't this a bit distorted? They make German fast zooms that compete (and
best-optically) anything from the competition. At a price, for sure. They
have never apologized for being expensive, and people keep acting like it's
something new. 
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

The world's full of apathy, and I don't care.