Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] AA Trivia Question
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:40:52 -0800

At 10:30 AM 11/18/99 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>, Adams became a devoted Leica user in the 1930's.  He was
>the principal instructor at the American Leica School in the '40's and
>'50's.  This was more than twenty years before the RTS appeared.

Then how do you account for him saying in his autobiography that he didn't 
like the Leica as much as the Contax rangefinders? He chose Contax. He may 
have taught at a Leica school, but he made it clear he preferred Contax 
cameras (except for their shutters).

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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