Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:11 AM 7/29/99 +700, David Young wrote: >It is my understanding that the Nikkor >lenses are copies of the Carl Zeiss optics and that they are as good as the >Zeiss lenses if not superior. I really do not want us to wander off into this minefield again, but a copy, by definition, can never be superior to the original. "As good as", arguably, but never "better". The original Nikkor lenses are pretty much direct thefts of the superb Zeiss Contax lens line. And they were dirt, dirt, dirt cheap: some of these puppies sold for as little as $15 in Tokyo when a German Zeiss lens, if it could be had at all, would sell for over $300. The success of Nikon and Canon were based on producing well-made cameras and good lenses for a fraction of what the Leitz and Zeiss originals cost. Then, as now, pecunia omnia vincit in the marketplace. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!