Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Konica threat to M:
From: "Ken Iisaka" <kiisaka@attglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:08:14 -0700
 
From: 4season <4season@boulder.net>
> This isn't exactly the "Volks Leica" that some of us may have wanted,
> but it looks cool all the same: Imagine seeing the M-mount arise as an
> important industry standard! More lens choices! More gadgets to go broke
> buying! We're still lacking an affordable introduction to the wonders of
> M-type photography, but after usual discounting, maybe a Hexar RF and
> one of the newer Cosina lenses will come close. Name a Japanese town
> "Germany", so that all items can say "Made In Germany", and we're all
> set.

Well, this is no joke, because there is a city named Usa, in southern Japan.
Some cheap post-war toys made in this city were supposedly marked, "MADE IN
USA"