Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Correct - Edixa ceased operations due to the old age of the proprietors the Wirgin brothers. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica size >I read somewhere that Heinz Waaske (spelling???), the inventor of the >Rollei 35, went to various companies before placing his design with Rollei, > I believe he worked for Edixa, and they let him offer the design to other > firms, including Leitz Wetzlar. > Wonderful little cameras, very pocketable - pretty good is the Ricoh GR > series too, very flat and compact with excellent lenses. > Douglas > > Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > >> Mark writes: >> >> To me the Leica philosophy of camera size went out with the M system in >> 1954. >> To me by far the TRUE size of a Leica is the size of a Barnack. A Leica >> thread mount camera. Fits in your pocket. Not so M. too big. Clunky. >> >> ------ >> >> The Barnack Leicas won't fit in any normal pocket unless they have a >> collapsible Elmar lens. For me the ideal pocket camera is the Rollei >> 35SE. The lens is better than the Elmar too. Leica once built prototypes >> of a Rollei 35 size camera but abandoned it in favor of the M. >> >> Larry Z >>