Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: New Nikon Rangefinder
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:20:31 -0800

At 12:32 PM 11/10/99 -0800, Bill Erfurth wrote:
>It is my understanding that Nikon holds the patent on
>a device that allows the use of a zoom lens on a
>rangefinder.
>
>This could be very interesting...and a big problem for
>the people in beautiful downtown Solms.

Oh, yeah, like Leica's going to put a zoom on the M6? It would do no good. 
The Contax G1 is going to have a zoom so I heard. But it has a zooming 
viewfinder. The M6 doesn't.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

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