Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/17

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Subject: [Leica]New Nikon SP 2005 Limited Edition Introduced
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Mon Jan 17 03:13:33 2005
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At 0:10 PM -0800 05.1.14, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Do you really think that Nikon kept 50 year old tooling?  If they kept the
>tooling, do you think the 50's-60's era tools that used the tooling are
>still around?  WHat about the mechanics that used that tool/tooling?

It's all new tooling that was made for the S3-2000 reproduction. They 
took quite a bath on it when the S3 didn't sell as much as they liked.

The nice thing is that 90% of the S3 is compatible with the SP. All 
they had to do is make the rangefinder (not an easy proposition, it's 
even more complex than an M3).

Karen

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Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/

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