Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/29

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Subject: Contax SLR/G Origins
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:19:32 -0500

With regard to Mr Love's repetitive ignorant and insulting remarks, I'll
merely refer him to Blake Zeigler (Yashica USA) or Allen Numano (Kyocera) or
to the multifarious Zeiss and Kyocera publications on this subject,
especially the most interesting ONLY ZEISS, published by Kyocera in June,
1994.  These guys either really DO believe Zeiss is designing the lenses and
the cameras, or they've established a MOST elaborate fraud.

Again, for the hard-of-acknowledging-reality:  Zeiss designs all the lenses.
Period.  Zeiss and Kyocera design the cameras as a joint project, with the
final work being done by Kyocera subject to approval from Oberkochen.

Finally, the Porsche Design folks ONLY had input on the original RTS.
Period.  Again, Porsche Design, Zeiss, and Kyocera are united on this.

Marc
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