Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/03

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Subject: [Leica] Leica m9 sighting at Union Square tonight
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:34:34 -0500
References: <C7B36EC2.5E9C1%mark@rabinergroup.com> <20100303020459.3e70f435@linux-0ifi.site> <eb6799211003022315x7065ac6cy2d618d58e7051c12@mail.gmail.com> <20100303022506.5c2960b9@linux-0ifi.site> <a3f189161003030428l31eb9e63k3916cd445d21ef20@mail.gmail.com> <1687372883-1267620740-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-9268939-@bda2913.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <4B8E68E0.9060605@gmx.de>

A man once yelled at me and made me leave the area around his booth at
a camera show when I insisted that Yashica was Japanese, not Russian.

Phil Forrest


> The Leica myth lives on.
> At a camera fleamarket in Horley (near Gatwick Airport in the UK) a
> few years ago, one of the stallholders swore blind that Leicas had
> always been made in East Germany by the same company that made
> Praktica cameras after we got into conversation when he saw my M6.
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas


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