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Subject: Vs: [Fwd: [Leica] Voigtlander Ultra-Wide - Heliar 12mm f/5.6Aspherical]
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:04:08 +0100

This is correct but Nikon F was introduced much later, in 1959, so it is not the issue here. Ehrenreich´s marketing certainly was one factor.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: Steven Alexander <alexpix@worldnet.att.net>
Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 27. syyskuuta 2000 14:25
Aihe: Re: [Fwd: [Leica] Voigtlander Ultra-Wide - Heliar 12mm f/5.6Aspherical]


>>> period
>> 
>> Which, I assume, is a contributing factor to why Nikon became so popular
>> with photojournalists around that era.
>> 
>> M.
>Another factor was the increasing demand for longer focal length lenes, the
>framing advantage to slr's and ease of motor advance.  Also Nikon offered
>from Erinch(sp), the importer, on better pro service---loaner service as
>well as faster and wider glass.
>
>Steven Alexander
>
>