Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin Howard wrote: > SML jotted down the following: > > > Then how come some people kept insisting that the German version designed in > > Japan but manufactured in Germany is better in performance than the Japanese > > version which was designed and manufactured in Japan? > > Surely for the same reason that people think that German-made optics are > better than Canadian-made ones. Allow me to quote from Mike's Canonical > Presumptions: > > 6. Everything made in Germany is superior to anything made > anywhere else. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Hi Martin, In this case the "made in Germany" is probably correct, not so much for the glass but basically the lens staying together. As I recall when I got my "German assembled 35-70" at Leica in Toronto I was informed the difference was the fixing the " main complaint of the 35-70's made in Japan" was, they'd loosen up and fall apart, true or not I can't say as mine has had solid use about 8 years and is still in one piece. ted