Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:26 AM 7/8/97 -0700, Stephen Gandy wrote: >There were three versions of the Prominent. The I with a knob advance >and small RF/VF, the same I with a lever advance, and the II a very >large Albada type brightline RF/VF which tends to self destruct with lot >of flare and a foggy image quality. It is the type II which the >collectors seek out and pay serious money for. This is true, but strange. The Prominent II was a disaster in the marketplace: it was seen as a much less user-friendly tool than the Ia. Production figures for these cameras have not survived, but I suspect the II was only made in minuscule quantities. In any event, the decision was in the works to merge Voigtlander into Zeiss Ikon by the time the II appeared. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!