Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/10

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Subject: Re: Leicaflex
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@cdsnet.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:18:57 -0700

At 12:35 AM 10/10/96 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm just wondering if these are the right names or if perhaps they are
>different around the world. I had an XD-7 (European name- I thought it
>was called the XD-11 elsewhere) and it was very like the R4 and R5 in
>size and function and nothing like an R3.

Ah, the old "we U.S. folks think we're the only ones here" syndrome, eh?
Sorry about that. You are no doubt right. It seems to me there were XD-11s
and XD-5s in the US. Not XD-7s, which is probably the old grey market
avoidance naming scheme ploy. 

Sorry about that.

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass, OR