Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] was leica marketed as a professional camera or a hobbiest camera?
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:33:24 -0900
 
James Lagers long out of print volume Leica Literature contains many many
many examples of the Leica  and Leica System being marketed to what we now
know as photo journalists, also scientists, explorers and of course
well-heeled others as well.

Yes Speed Graphics and Rolleiflex TLRs were the bread and butter cameras of
a generation of studio shooters but the street photos and pjs shot with
Leicas (again see LA Express Newspaper Articles in Lager Leica Literature
book talking how they scooped the town and the next week every paper in LA
had Leicas)

Not sure where Contax RF came into the picture in this discussion as Zeiss
never had a fraction of the pj market share as Leitz, but DDD and other
shooters were instrumental in the development of the M3 system (see
VanHasbroecks Book) 

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