Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 war
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:59:31 -0500

At 09:57 AM 2/24/2000 PST, Mike Gil wrote:
>Photographers during the Korean war traded thier Leica lenses for the much 
>better Nikon lenses during that time. 

This is more than a bit of a mis-statement.  It would be fair to say that
independent photographers, who owned their own gear, supplemented their
quite expensive Leica lenses with equally capable, but much cheaper, Nikon
and Canon lenses.

Marc

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