Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] Pentax 645
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:33:52 -0400
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax
>
> Of interest and significance is that they are owned by Hoya, who at
> least for a while (and may still be*) were supplying Leica with some
> lens blanks for M lenses.
>
> Marty
>
> *A very good strategy for becoming deeply unpopular is to go on a
> Leica factory tour and start asking where everything comes from.  "Who
> supplies your brass / glass / coating raw materials etc".  I think I
> almost got booted out.

Interesting too that the Japanese factory was closed and cameras all
outsourced. Interesting history indeed

Cheers

Alastair
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