Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 13/5/01 11:14 pm, Marc James Small at msmall@roanoke.infi.net wrote: > At 08:34 AM 5/13/2001 +0800, apbbeijing wrote: >> This is as relevant as asking how long Leica has been producing zoom lenses: >> not very long but they still manage to make some pretty decent ones despite >> the abhorrence of the things to certain members of the Leitz family which >> prevented them being produced by Leica until that part of the heritage was >> out of the way. > > Adrian > > I've never heard this and it conflicts with other evidence I have. Could I > ask you for a source that "certain members of the Leitz family" disliked > zoom lenses? > > Marc If my memory serves me well, this is what my father heard from Dr. Walter Mandler during his visit to Leitz Midlands in the early '80s. Joseph