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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: DS to SS
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:07:37 -0800
References: <3.0.6.32.20010205142003.00af1c90@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.4.10.10102051800230.16731-100000@qix.gpcc.itd.umi ch.edu> <3.0.6.32.20010205183810.00b14d90@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> <20010205223802.D21234@gabbahey.zippyland.com> <002e01c08ffa$50e2a300$ba2664d8@gary> <3.0.6.32.20010206113402.00b1f100@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com>
Marc James Small wrote:
>
> At 10:47 PM 2/5/2001 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >I read that the workers in the factory all voted it the best camera they
> every
> >made. The one they would want.
> >This was about 15 years ago.
>
> Well, by 15 years ago, the workers who had made the M3 in either form were
> almost certainly long retired. Leitz had a large turnover in its workforce
> in the later 1960's when the older guys retired and were replaced by
> younger, Postwar-trained, employees.
>
> Marc
Wasn't it their parents and grandparents making those cameras?
That's who they asked in the first place I'm sure.
markrabiner
In reply to:
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Min. focus accuracy of Leica lenses and the Hexar RF)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Min. focus accuracy of Leica lenses and the Hexar RF)
Message from Jeff Moore <jbm4@mindspring.com> ([Leica] DS to SS)
Message from "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com> ([Leica] Re: DS to SS)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: DS to SS)