Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:22 PM 26/08/1997 PST, you wrote: > Hi, > > It was my understanding that the later R4 made concurrently with R4SP > were manufactured in Germany as it was marked so. The bulk of the R4's were marked "Made in Portugal". The IC came from Ferranti in the UK. The Seiko shutter came from the Minolta XD-7 but incorporated some improvements by Leitz. Mirror housing and transport mechanism were made in Wetzlar. Final assembly and control was done in Portugal. The country mentioned in the engraving "Made in ..........." is today determined by where the largest part of the value of the camera is created. As an example, if the costprice of a Famaliciao (Leica Portugal) made camera is 25 and Leica imports the camera into Germany to sell it for 100 from Solms, they can legally engrave "Made in Germany". Gerard Captijn. Gerard Captijn, Geneva, Switzerland. Email: captyng@vtx.ch Tel/fax: +41 22 700 39 28