Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom, I have questionned Jim Williams on this and he does not have any written trace on the matter, though he does remember a post by Blake arguing in that direction. Do you have an archive of such a post ? Or Blake's current e-mail address ? If it is true it will be interesting to know that the only modern competitor to the M system was imagined by an American, designed and produced in Japan with the contribution of optical engineers working for an old German company... Alan TEAShea@aol.com wrote: > > The camera was his idea. He prepared a general concept for it and persuaded > Contax to do it. > > Tom Shea > > << In what way is Blake Ziegler, AFAIK marketing director for Contax USA, > the "father of the G2" ? He manages a sales force, he does not give > birth to cameras... >>