Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, those thieving japs.....the same ones that brought us those crappy Nikons -- you know, that junky F/F2 and that piss-poor Nikon SP -- the one that kicked the ass of Leitz/Zeiss..... How dare them make the finest cameras yet built and price them so that a mortal could buy them......the bastards. Walt On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Marc James Small wrote: > The Leitz cassettes are not "versions" of the Nikon AM-1: when Leitz > introduced their first cassette, Nikon wasn't even making anything other > than military optics, if even that. The AM-1 is a theft of the Zeiss Ikon > cassette design, a MUCH more user-friendly item, in all regards, than the > Leitz model. > > This is yet another example of the success of Nikon being founded on the > theft of German designs. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >