[rollei_list] Re: Leica and Contax
- From: "Roger M. Wiser" <wiserr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:48:25 -0500
I am not too familiar with the Canon or Nikon rf's but the used ones now
appear to be very costly Maybe you should have held off selling them,
however, that may have upset your marriage plans.
Roger
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Leica and Contax
>I find it curious that in this lengthy discussion of rangefinder cameras
>that
> there was no commentary on the fact that the first Nikons were copies of
> the
> contax, and that the first Canons were copies of the Leica III series. I
> suppose this is too well known to merit comment.
> I was stationed in Korea in 1954-55, and thousands of both nilons and
> canons
> were sold to GI's thru the PX system, somewhat before either was that well
> established with distribution in the US proper.
>
> I bought a Contax IIIa in the post exchange ($187.50 as I recall, with
> case
> and a 50 mm sonnar.) It was a great camera, but accessory lenses never
> showed
> up in the Px, so I wound up selling it and coming back with two Canon
> IVs2's
> with normal lenses and a wide angle and a 90mm. The PX price on the Canon
> with
> a normal lens and case was $105.00.
>
> I never got a lot of use out of the canons, because I sold them about two
> years later so I could afford to get married. It was a case where my
> youthful
> photographic aspirations had overshot my equally youthful financial
> reserves,
> which were basically zero. After that I did not have a camera for about
> three
> years, when someone sold me a pristine M3 double-stroke for $150.00, a
> camera I
> still have.
>
> I don't think Leica ever showed up in PX's, although there may have been a
> few that got snapped up before I ever saw them.
>
>
> G, King
>
>
>
>
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