Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Copies vs. original
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:46:18 -0400

At 07:48 PM 12-05-98 -0500, Eric wrote:
>
>Yep. Kodak made a highly regarded 35mm camera years ago. Wonderful lenses,
>as good as Leica and Zeiss, so I hear, don't know if it's true, but they
>were great anyway. Interchangeable backs. Somehow they didn't catch. Anyone
>know why?

Referring to the Kodak Ektra?  Didn't it cost something like $750 in 1949
dollars, give or take a few hundred?  Probably the reason for its demise.

Dan C.