[Leica] Leica News in German

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 5:54 PM -0500 2/21/05, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Leica film cameras will indeed be heirlooms, probably as display items
>to put on shelves, rather than as cameras - a bit like the type writers
>allot of people have as object d'art....meanwhile, we can use them...
>
>And, truth be told, I'd suggest that this really became inevitable when
>Leica gave into the screams of all the damn traditionalists and let the
>M5 die...THAT was the beginning of the end. Interesting that, if memory
>from earlier today serves me, that German news story refers to Leica not
>as the company that invented 35 mm photography, or the company whose
>cameras in the 50s and early 60s became synonymous with world-class
>photo journalism, but instead refers to it as "tradition bound," which,
>Simon, is NOT a compliment. ;-)

I think you're reading more into a babelfish translation than there 
is in the original. A more correct translation is: 'company with a 
great tradition'.


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