Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] BESSA R3A or M7 (now metering)
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Tue Jan 4 19:43:00 2005

on 1/4/05 6:04 PM, Bill Marshall at billgem@hotmail.com wrote:

> I was in a Leica shop today where the owner had an old Leica R3
> and an old Leica R4 on display. He explained that both were made by Minolta
> & were identical to Minolta models that were current at the time, but cost 
> 3
> times as much.

The shop owner was seriously mis-informed.  The R3 was derived from a
minolta design (XG-7?) and made by Leitz Portugal, and the R4 was
co-developed with minolta, also made by Leitz Portugal.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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