Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/04
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He was an innovator: he'd have loved it!
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Subject: [Leica] Re:The New Solms AF
Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at internet
Date: 2/4/98 8:53 AM
Excerpts from mail: 3-Feb-98 [Leica] Leica-Users List Di.. by
Listmgr@mejac.palo-alto.
> There is a point where the nature and extent of a change in a product
> transforms that product into something other than the original in intent and
> purpose. A Leica is one thing. An AF is another.
>
> Sure, if Solms wants to produce an AF, let it be called by its true name, a
> Solms. Let's not confuse it with a Leica.
>
Idle thought: how would Oskar Barnack have regarded AF?
Stan Yoder
Pittsburgh