Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23

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Subject: [Leica] LHSA = Leica HISTORICAL Society of America
From: "Doug Richardson" <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:44:20 -0000

Terry <leicar8@earthlink.net> wrote:

>There is now an immediate concern: who is going to replace Roy, and
will the quality of
the Viewfinder drop back to the old days when its total content was
Barnack,
Barnack, Barnack/screwmount, screwmount, screwmount? I am an M6 and an
R8 user and
have very little interest in 30s and 40s Leica bodies and lenses.
Please assure
me that is not going to happen!!!

Why? Viewfinder is the journal of the Leica HISTORICAL Society of
America, so is it not reasonable that most of the articles should be
about the older kit? In much the same way, this is the Leica USER
group, so one might expect most of the postings to be be about using
Leica lenses and cameras, but with a strong emphasis of the newer
hardware.

That's the theory, at least. In practice, both Viewfinder and the LUG
cover a broader Leica-related subject base than their titles suggest,
but would it really be a big problem if both showed a stronger bias
toward their "official" subject area?

Regards,

Doug Richardson