The original Texas Leica is the famous KE-4(1) Combat Camera made by Graflex for the U.S. Signal Corps in 1953. It uses 70 mm film for 55 x 70 mm exposures. Also nicknamed "Gulliver�s Contax" because the designer was Hubert Nerwin who also designed Contax II for Zeiss Ikon. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 21. hein�kuuta 2002 23:01 Aihe: Re: O.T. Texas Leica >----- Original Message ----- >From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:51 AM >Subject: Re: O.T. Texas Leica > > >> >> But Jeff, you can't call it a Texas Leica - I was the only one there >yesterday >> with a Leica (sorry, I just had to say that; the CL is still a new toy) ><vbg>. >> > >Sorry Frank, >I didn't want to steal the thunder. Yours is a real Leica, but the 690 >series Fuji are known as the "Texas Leica". >Hi Jim, I'm shopping for special suspenders to carry this sucker around. > >Jeff. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
