Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As far as I remember from the meeting with Leica at last year's Photokina, at least part of the 90mm lens, namely the big aspheric element, is made in Canada. I am not sure why according to you Leica is shooting itself in the foot--is it by having the lens made in Canada, by mislabeling the boxes, or what? If I ever buy a lens that is mislabeled, I will be very happy--I just saw a mislabeled screw mount lens for $4000 at the Leica Shop in Vienna--talk about instant collectibles! I am very pleased with my Canadian Noctilux, thank you very much. Anyway, these days many "made in" labels are meaningless, with most companies sourcing parts all over the world. A Harley Davidson has less U.S. content than a Honda Gold Wing. Nathan DonjR43198@aol.com wrote: > I talked to Leica USA and a dealer relative to the 90 mm APO-ASPH and was > told the lens is ONLY made in Germany but some of the boxes in which the > lenses are shipped say "made in Canada." There was also a message on the LUG > that an owner of a 90 mm APO-ASPH stated the lens was stamped "made in > Germany." > > If Leica USA, the owner, and the dealer are correct, Leica Germany has just > continued its current past time of shooting itself in the foot at each > opportunity. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/index.html Belgium photo page: http://member.xoom.com/wajsman/index.htm Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html