Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica size
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Wed Nov 16 08:21:16 2005
References: <437B3F80.3010809@aol.com> <437B4134.5060104@gmx.de>

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
>>


Replies: Reply from hlritter at mindspring.com (Howard L Ritter, Jr) ([Leica] Leica size)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at aol.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Leica size)
Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Leica size)