Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:09 AM 9/29/01 -0400, Rob McElroy wrote: >Now isn't that a first - a camera arriving on time, when promised by the manufacturer. Oh how I >long for the "good old days." Well, to be fair, Leitz has a long record, before and after 1961, of announcing cameras long before they arrived in dealers' shops. But the record is probably held by Zeiss Ikon: they announced the Contarex Bullseye at Photokina '58, TWO YEARS before it was generally available. I suspect the "good old days" really weren't all that good. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html