Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] MD-12
From: "Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:37:16 -0500
 
Mark,

Just curious....  Didn't the Pentax MX come first? It seems to me I replaced
my PTM Spotmatic with the MX in the mid 60s but I am not certain of the
year.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Rabiner [SMTP:mrabiner@concentric.net]
> Sent:	Monday, March 01, 1999 4:29 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] MD-12
> 
> 
> Thought the FM was Nikons answer to the revolutionary OM-1 which
> significaly lightened the load on the foundations of camera stores and
> photographers necks everywhere. The SLR world had not been the same
> since untill the Nikons F4/5 and Leica R8. But the R8 is not as heavy as
> it is big. It's time to scale down agian.
> Mark Rabiner