Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] observations at photo east
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 23:58:56 -0500

Jeffrey Frankel jotted down the following:

> A beautiful camera to hold (I got an angry stare when I wound and fired the
> shutter) 
> [...]
> We were told that the camera would sell for about $3,000.  My wife asked who
> would use such a camera.  Use???  "We sell this stuff to collectors, not to
> users."

That pretty much seems to sum up Leica in the past few years...

M.

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