Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sal DiMarco,Jr. wrote: > Fellow Luggers, > In an earleir posting Martin Howard said, "Real men shoot with a > Visoflex." While, I think he was trying to be humorous, it was this type of > thinking at E. Leitz GMBH in the mid 1950's which prevented the development > of a Leica single lens reflex camera, until Nikon had control of the market. > Leica could have kept it's share of the market if they had an SLR ten years > earlier. > Lastly, I know the R3 was a modified Minolta XG7 or 9. Sal, The R3 was a modified Minolta XE-7, but the shutter was a Copal/Leitz. Lucien - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html