RE: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Please, please, pleeeease don't go anywhere near the nikon, zeiss, leica,
end of the war in Japan/optical industry and pj switching over to Nikon
debate - otherwise, one of these days we are going to cause poor Marc some
permanent damage  - just read the archives  :)

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dante A.
> Stella
> Sent: January 30, 2001 8:38 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?
>
>
>
> While we're on the subject, let's not forget about the faster,
> better Zeiss
> optics (at least at that time), combined finder, and bayonet mount!
>
> Marc James Small wrote:
>
> > At 06:39 PM 1/30/2001 -0600, goldman@math.umn.edu wrote:
> > >       Do you have a source for this.  I thought they were all Nikon as
> > >that is what most of their people used, and that Leica people like Bill
> > >Allard bought their own equipment.
> >
> > Nikon was busy making Japanese battleship rangefinders and the
> like in the
> > 1920's and '30's and wasn't selling cameras.  That is when
> Leica ruled at
> > National Geographic, and it continued to do so through the Second World
> > War, though most of the other major magazines went over to Contax due to
> > the greater reliability of the Contax shutter.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>