Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, I'm not wishing to pick a fight with an international authority on the subject (!), but I'd always grown up with the tales that the Contax's shutter was its Achilles heel, its weakest link. I'm sure you'll defend it but why might those stories have arisen? Jem - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] 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!