Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guess he was just too busy actually shooting photos, rather than memorizing and reciting names and dates associated with the history of the German optical industry, to dump his Contax and pick up and M. Ah well. Yet another quirk of history. B. D. Marc The Always Polite and Gracious Wrote: Capa died 18 months after the M3 came out, and had a Contax > and Nikon RF on > him at the time. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > Er ... Planet Earth to B.D. and Eric! Return to reality! This conversation was about the use of the Contax RF versus the Leica back in the days when the Contax was still available. Obviously, when it went out of production in '58 and off the market in '60, the Nikon RF have gone even earlier, it would no longer be anyone's choice. The period under consideration is 1931 to 1960. Though, there is a professional photographer here who does portrait shots (and good ones, too!) with an Ikoflex IIa, a camera which left production around 1956. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of > Marc James > Small > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 7:02 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Contax shutter complexity versus Leica > > > At 10:00 AM 11/20/1999 -0800, Eric Welch wrote: > > > >Not after the M3 mad an appearance. > >