Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Konica fiction
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:56:19 -0400 (EDT)

If you're really going to be picky,
http://www.konica.co.jp/corporate/history_e/history1.html

Shows that Konica fielded a commercial camera about 22 years before the
UR-Leica.  They made a 127 (4x4) camera in 1925 (the same year as Leica
made its first model).  It's not on their list, but they had a compact in
1911 or thereabouts.


On Fri, 11 May 2001, apbbeijing wrote:

> > At 09:35 AM 5/10/01 -0400, Marc James Small wrote:
> >> I believe we've been through this before.  Karl Kellner (he of the Kellner
> >> Eyepiece design) founded what is now the Leica company in 1849. Is Konica
> >> older than this?  I believe it IS older than Hasselblad and Linhof.
> >> 
> >> Marc
> 
> As per the Konica website:
> 
> > 1873
> >   
> > April:
> >   
> > Rokusaburo Sugiura begins selling photographic and lithographic materials in
> > the Kojimachi section of Tokyo.  The name of his store is Konishiya
> > Rokubeiten.
> 
> 
> HTH!
> 
> Rs
> 
> Adrian
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