Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [Rollei] Leica envy rears its itself again!
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:00:31 -0700
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QG

Bullshit!  The Kine Exacta was the pioneer in SLR, though the
Russians may dispute that.  I refer, of course, to 35mm SLRs.

Jerry (the rabid LUG wolverine)

"Q.G. de Bakker" wrote:

> Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
> > The Visoflex is a solution in search of a problem.  SLRs
> > rendered it essentially useless.
>
> I woudn't say that. Not at all. The Visoflex was *pioneering* the SLR
> principle.
>
> Great irony, isn't it, that Leitz with their 1933 Astroflex reflex housing
> was almost the first to introduce SLR viewing in 35 mm photography, the very
> thing that virtually killed the rangefinder market, i.e. Leitz's main
> market?

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