Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/27

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Leica] Voigtlander Ultra-Wide - Heliar 12mm f/5.6 Aspherical]
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:58:18 -0500 (CDT)

Yes, that's what I've heard also....I haven't, however, met anyone 
in 25 years of photography, most of it professional, who had actually 
RECEIVED a "free" nikon, but then that was 40 years ago.....and 
I've only met a tiny minority of PJs from that era....

CU later, Walt

On
Wed,
27 Sep 2000 Krechtz@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/27/00 9:50:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> walt@jove.acs.unt.edu writes:
> 
> << Look at it objectively, without your Leica religion.....if it were 
>  1957, would you take an M3DS with a goggled Summaron?....or a Nikon 
>  SP with a 35 1.8 Nikkor?.....a "hektor" or a 105 2.5, perhaps the 
>  best all around lens EVER?.....what about the SP body?????.. >>
> 
> In 1957, one would go with the Nikon SP, even if he had to pay for it.  The 
> period to which I was referring was probably a few years later, in 1959, when 
> the Nikon F was introduced.
> 
> Joe Sobel  
>