Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Konica fiction
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:22:26 -0400
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At 09:39 AM 5/11/2001 +0800, apbbeijing@yahoo.com wrote:
>The issue was the heritage of Konica vs that of Leitz. My point was that as
>photographic producers Konica had a slight edge in terms of time in the
>marketplace.

Adrian

I think it has been proved that Konica is younger than Leitz/Leica.  Leica
dates from 1849 as an optical company.  Konica dates from the 1870's.  Is
my math somehow deficient here?

Marc

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