Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 at a Bris
From: Douglas Herr<telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 11:25:47 -0700

On Wed, 8 May 2002 14:05:09 -0400 "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> ...It was really an SP camera, not an AE, 
> despite Canon hanging that name on it....And 
> how could I have been off by four years? Good 
> God! So it really only took Leica 26 years, 
> not, as I inferred, 30 years, to come up
> with essentially the same degree 
> of "automation" Canon introduced to its
> line in...1976.;-)

Wasn't it a Pentax (model escapes my memory) that introduced aperture-priority exposure automation on an interchangable-lens SLR?  I think it was 1970 or so.
 

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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