Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:46 PM 5/8/2001 -0700, Herbert & Lee Kanner wrote: >I bought a 35 mm Summicron labeled "Canada." It was about half the >price of current models. In general, the lenses made in Canada, >e.g., 90 mm Summicron, appear to be somewhat cheaper than others. >Are these lenses inferior, and, if so, in what respects? > Oh, God. Now you've gone and done it and Ted Grant will be a-risin' from his protracted silence to Preach the Gospel of Queen, Motherhood, and Ernst Leitz Midland until we all cave in in fits of despair. It is, of course, most obvious that any "Leitz" lens marked "Canada" is just so much of a pop-bottle bottom in terms of optical performance as are those lenses marked "Japan". But, in the interests of NATO amity, no one has openly admitted this in the past half-century, and suckers have been allowed to believe that these Canadian "Leica" lenses are just as good as those made in Germany. Now that you're part of the LUG, though, we can let you in on the truth. BUY GERMAN! Avoid those clone lenses: they might HAVE that "Leica" mark on them or even "Ernst Leitz" but they're NOT real Leitz or Leica lenses, anymore than is that Oberkochen piece of crap Zeiss foisted off on the Leitz folks or the Angenieux lenses, or the Minolta glass. Buy ONLY Wetzlar/Solms lenses are the REAL THING. Canadian glass is junk. Bottle bottoms. Trash. Filth. An embarrassment which even Argus would have avoided. (About half of my Leica lenses are MIOC (Made in Ontario Canada) glass, so I DO know that of which I write!) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!