Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date sent: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:04:58 -0500 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Texas Leica Send reply to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > At 09:33 PM 1999-01-27 +0100, Raimo Korhonen wrote: > >I think that the original Texas Leica was the 1953 Graflex KE-4(1) > >combat camera for 5.5x7cm exposures on 70mm film. > >Interchangeable lenses, too. > > Designed, I might add, by Hubert Nerwin, Director of Camera Design at Zeiss > Ikon from 1936 until 1945. Nerwin is the father of the modern SLR, having > produced the Contax S. > > Marc > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > Right - I think the Combat Graflex is also called Gulliverīs Contax. Raimo (photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen)