Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R7/6 brochure vs. R8 brochure lens selection
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 09:07:38 -0600

> No more 21, 35PC,
>180 f4 to name but a few. Of course the whole Telyt system's been redone.
>Any reason for this streamlining?

They are dated lenses. And Leica has only so much manufacturing capacity.
They've moved more production to Solms away from Canada. Thus, they have to
give somewhere. Another explanation might also be that the 21 and 35PC were
made by Schneider, and maybe Schneider didn't want to, or couldn't, make
them any more.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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