Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/23

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Subject: [Leica] Coenen's interview on Asahi Camera
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Sat Apr 23 23:34:26 2005
References: <NIEELBCOAJKOKJFIGDGJMEEGCLAA.tim@KairosPhoto.com>

And what about Rollei 35 in 1966 - compact cameras were not that compact 
before it. And the designer Heinz Waaske offered it to Leitz who declined 
it. A classic example of not-invented-here syndrome.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Atherton" <tim@kairosphoto.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Coenen's interview on Asahi Camera


>
>> I keep harping about what happened when the OM1 came out.
>> And forced them all to take a long hard look at their fat camera designs.
>> And that was when Leica came out with the CL non coincidently enough.
>


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