Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:24 AM 10/26/01 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: >My mistake - So would it be possible - theoretically - to squeeze a >combined rf/vf into a Barnack, Marc? I suspect this could have been done, but would have required a larger top plate. Interesting idea: I'm not certain that it was ever seriously considered: the two design concepts -- evolutionary improvements in the original Leica idea or revolutionary development of a new camera -- had pretty much been locked in stone from 1936 when the Leica IV was built. Had the Second World War not intervened, we quite possibly would have seen the M cameras appearing in the early 1940's and the LTM cameras killed off by the end of that decade. As it was, the end of the War found Leitz struggling to survive, so the LTM cameras were held in production as sure sellers and the M design was deferred for nine more years. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html