Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?
From: goldman@math.umn.edu
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:51:51 -0600 (CST)

Marc;	
	Thanks for the info.  I thought Wilbur was referring to the SLR years
(Nikon F to near present time).  Judging by the pictures of photographers
at the back of the Geographic and other sources, Nikon still seems to be
in the majority but there is certainly Canon EOS.

Marc wrote: 
"Nikon was busy making Japanese battleship rangefinders and the like in
the 1920's and '30's and wasn't selling cameras.  That is when Leica ruled
at National Geographic, and it continued to do so through the Second World
War, though most of the other major magazines went over to Contax due to
the greater reliability of the Contax shutter."

Jay