Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Raymond Loewy DID Design a Camera!
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:27:29 -0400

However....to be fair, you have to ask WHEN it was designed, and compare it
to the other cameras of that era....



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of M.E.Berube
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:59 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Raymond Loewy DID Design a Camera!
>
>
> At 12:45 PM 9/21/00 -0400, Buzz Hausner wrote:
> >  To get this thread at least vaguely on topic, I stand
> corrected...Raymond
> >Loewy did in fact design at least one camera, and a view-finder (range
> >finder?) camera at that.  Can anyone identify this item?
> >
> >  http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/loewy/lwy37.htm
>
> Ick. Should have stuck with trains and soda bottles. I generally like his
> work but that looks almost as ergonomic as the chubby & stubby minolta A2.
> Carpe Luminem,
> Michael E. Berube
>
>