Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/30

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Subject: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:28:36 -0500

The Leica 0's were in production in 1923 or 4
" by the end of the decade, the camera had been perfected and full-scale
production was established. "

The Contax I came out in 1932. That was their first camera.
That was the same year as The Leica Standard. Leicas 17th camera.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:48:56 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
> 
> 
>> No.  When the market was early, and Zeiss was all over cameras, there was
>> the Contax 1 and 2 and 3 and then there was the Leica ( whatever ) model.
>> Zeiss was king.  Leica the upstart.  As the Good Book says, in the
>> beginning, it was Contax and Leica.  Contax was more elegant, more lenses,
>> more you name it.  Leica was cheaper by a lot.  People who could not
>> afford
>> the Contax, bought Leicas.  So why did Leica become supreme over the
>> Contax?
>> 
>> Because the Contax shutters required constant tweaking, constant
>> replacement
>> of the shutter cords, and basically were not reliable.
>> 
>> Deja vue?
>> 
>> Frank Filippone




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