[rollei_list] Re: Leica and Contax
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:19:09 -0400
At 08:11 PM 4/3/05 -0400, Allen Zak wrote:
>I think maybe that was also true of Leica for Leitz.
Allen
I do have production figures for the Leica camera but not readily at hand.
It is my understanding that Leitz lost money on the Leica camera body until
they found a friendly home with the Post Exchange System following the end
of the Second World War, at which point profits from camera sales replaced
losses and when cameras replaced microscopes and binoculars as the
principal products of the firm.
Leitz would have produced one or the other version of the M camera in 1939
had the war not intruded: the Leica IV dates from 1936, after all.
Marc
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