Thanks Raimo for that bit of information. I first heard the nickname when I started searching for the Fuji 6x9 rangefinders.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raimo Korhonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:35 AM Subject: Vs: O.T. Texas Leica > 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 > > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Päivä: 21. heinäkuuta 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 . - 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 .
