Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Texas Leica
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:04:58 -0500

At 09:33 PM 1999-01-27 +0100, Raimo Korhonen wrote:
>I think that the original Texas Leica was the 1953 Graflex KE-4(1) 
>combat camera for 5.5x7cm exposures on 70mm film. 
>Interchangeable lenses, too.

Designed, I might add, by Hubert Nerwin, Director of Camera Design at Zeiss
Ikon from 1936 until 1945.  Nerwin is the father of the modern SLR, having
produced the Contax S.

Marc

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