Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexander Lee wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:15:23 +0000 > > From: Patrick Giagnocavo <a222@redrose.net> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] NEW Leica USA screw mount lenses! > > Photovilla@aol.com wrote: > > <snip> > > > And if they make screw mount, then maybe they can make lenses for > > other camera mounts too. > > If they made a Contax/Yashica mount version of their R lenses Zeiss > > would lose a lot of business, for instance. > > ./patrick > > I wouldn't be too sure about Contax losing lots of their lens business. > People who get Contax SLR tend to do so because they want Zeiss glass. If > they had wanted Leica lenses, then they would have probably gotten Leica > bodies. > > No offense to anyone, but there are some people who prefer Zeiss SLR lenses > to Leica SLR lenses, Zeiss SLR bodies to Leica SLR bodies. Most of them > just happen to be subscribed to different mail lists. > > Alex I'm not sure the Zeiss glass in Contax SLR has quite the reputation as other Zeiss glass for other systems. I would hope one of the experts, Marc James Small comes to mind, would straighten out that point for us. I think there is Zeiss and then there's Zeiss. Maybe I'm wrong. Mark Rabiner