Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re:The New Solms AF
From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 08:53:21 -0500 (EST)
 
Excerpts from mail: 3-Feb-98 [Leica] Leica-Users List Di.. by
Listmgr@mejac.palo-alto. 
> There is a point where the nature and extent of a change in a product 
> transforms that product into something other than the original in intent and 
> purpose. A Leica is one thing. An AF is another. 
>      
> Sure, if Solms wants to produce an AF, let it be called by its true name, a 
> Solms. Let's not confuse it with a Leica.
>      

Idle thought: how would Oskar Barnack have regarded AF?
Stan Yoder
Pittsburgh