Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams and Leitz
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:02:53 -0500

At 10:19 PM 2/18/98 -0600, Eric Welch wrote:
>No doubt based on his observation, that I left out before, that the Contax
>rangefinders had finicky shutters, and he noted the Leica shutter was more
>robust. I wasn't aware he actually switched. He was a paid spokesman for
>Contax for a while.

Well, I'm not certain that he 'switched' per se, at least while the Contax
system was still in production.  I believe he probably used both and
endorsed both as bucks were shoveled his way.

Marc


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