Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Contax shutter complexity versus Leica
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:00:03 -0800

At 12:21 PM 11/20/99 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>Combat photographers chose Contax, not Leica.

Not after the M3 mad an appearance. And of course, in Vietnam, the Contax 
was already on the way out, or dead. No? From what I read, the M and Nikon 
F were the only cameras that had the reputation of surviving the jungles of 
Southeast Asia.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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