Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, just that those that were oroginally Minolta designed were replaced later on with Leica modified designs. - -----Original Message----- From: Doug Herr [mailto:71247.3542@compuserve.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 9:33 PM To: (unknown) Subject: [Leica] R-lens origins (was: filter usage + lens tests) On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Peter Kotsinadelis wrote: > The Leica folks have bettered the Miinolta designs in more recent vintages of lenses. and later wrote: >Minolta is no slouch, they >make excellent lenses and have very good QC which is why Leica partnered >with starting in 1971. This was the year that Leitz officials visited the >Minolta factory in Japan. They were impressed with the operation which led >Leitz to seek and established an agreement with Minolta that same year. Peter, Leitz started selling R-lenses in 1965 or so, 6 years before the Minolta cooperative agreement. Are you telling us that even the R-lenses that pre-date the Minolta agreement are in fact Minolta lenses? This is absurd. Doug Herr Sacramento