Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:59 AM 8/1/99 -0400, DonJ wrote: > >It is reassuring that Mr. Puts has now reported that Solms is NOT Wetzlar nor >Leitz but a new concern doing things differently. Thus, the old names of >Leitz and Wetzlar are not depreciated by what now carries the name Leica >stamped rather than engraved on the M cameras. Until Mr. Puts so reported, >it is likely many did not believe Leica customers and users were dealing with >a completely different organization with a completely different manufacturing >policy from that of E. Leitz Wetzlar. Now Mr. Puts has etched it in stone >for everyone and it is no longer subject to debate. Now when you are >handling a Solms camera that have Leica stamped on it, you will know you are >NOT handling a E. Leitz Wetzlar made camera. We are indebted for Mr. Puts >confirmation of this fact. > >Thank you Mr. Puts! > Yes indeed, thank you Mr. Puts. Thank you for explaining how it is that we can still, today, purchase new and better Leica products. New and better lenses. And at prices that, because of these new production techniques, are affordable. Can you imagine what a Leica would cost if produced the same way it was produced 20 years ago? What I can imagine, is that Leica would no longer exist. Jim