Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:06 PM 7/19/96 EDT, you wrote: >Wasn't Leica supposed to be used for the cameras produced by Leitz? Does >anybody think that the use of the name for other products, by what is now >essentially a different company, detract from it at all. Leica is a contraction of Leitz Camera. Leitz has been designing optics since the 1830s. They make the absolute best microscopes in the world, according to a doctor who does heart research, who is the niece of Aldous Huxley. I photographed her once, and she commented on my Leica cameras and said she had a hard time convincing Missouri hospital board members Leitz microscopes were worth 5x as much as what they were used to paying for. I don't have any problem with them using the name on anything they make. Like binoculars, enlargers, projectors, spotting scopes. As long as they live up to th name. =================== Eric Welch Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier NPPA Region 11 JIB chair Zen master to hotdog vendor: "Make me One with everything"