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

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Subject: [Leica] Leica size
From: cochranpr at mac.com (David Cochran)
Date: Wed Nov 16 07:00:38 2005
References: <437B3F80.3010809@aol.com>

Hi Mark. which pocket should I put my IIIf, it will rip my shirt if i put it 
in my pocket.

;-)

peace

David 
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005, at 06:19AM, Lawrence Zeitlin 
<lrzeitlin@aol.com> 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.
>
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>
>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
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