Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WKs 7,8 Includes picture of new film camera from France
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:42:39 -0500

Steve LeHuray jotted down the following:

> It only takes 200' reels and is about half the size of an XTR Prod. And a
> Prod package new is about $150,000. Plus if you look at them together the
> A-Minama is very different.

While I undertand chemical still photography, I don't understand why someone
would be interested in shooting on 16mm film, rather than digital HDTV.
What am I missing?

M.

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