Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Willi Stein and Adam Wagner
From: Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:38:20 +1200

Marc,

Could you please tell us a little more about Wagner's Leica H? What 
features did it have? I'm assuming it was supposed to supercede the 
IIIg?

Cheers,
Gary

Marc wrote:

>
>Well, the "people's Leica" fellow was Adam Wagner, the true disciple of
>Barnack;  Stein was a bit of a maverick.  But Leitz accepted Stein's M3
>over Wagner's IIIg as the wave of the future, and, when his Leica H was not
>produced, Wagner left Leica in 1966.

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