Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, What else? For the money, just like they tied up with Huawei.... this is not unknown in business, don't you think? :-) Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 6:26 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Having had a Zenit E many moons ago, and thinking when I moved upwards > to a Pentax Spotmatic that the Zenit should really have been named the > Nadir, I wonder for what reasons Leica is tieing itself to such an > unremarkable marque? After all, according to Robert Service's new book > Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin, the > country is quite a busted flush with a declining population riddled with > alcoholism. As a result, male life expectancy is a decade lower than in > the UK and its economy is about the size of the Netherlands. Mind you, > it seems to be top of the class when it come to mischievous hacking, and > Kompromat. > > It would be interesting to find what motivated the tie-up considering > Russia has little manufacturing industry and a prominent recent history > of cronyism and kleptocracy. The mind boggles at what might have gone on > in the background. Even though I have a nice Russian Jupiter-9 85mm F2 > made in 1977, I couldn't see myself buying the Zenit-M for my moral > health. Thanks, but no thanks. > > Douglas > > > > > On 17/12/2019 15:54, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: > > The Zenit-M camera is made by Leica with some simple design cues by > Zenit. > > It's essentially a Leica M240 without the 6-bit lens code reader and with > > Zenit software. The only lens profiles that are in the camera are only > for > > the three Zenit made lenses: 35/1.0, 50/1.0 and 21/2.8. If you use any > other > > Leica M-mount lens, the camera will not do automatic corrections. > > > > The only lens listed for sale, and only as a kit with the camera, is the > > 50/1.0. > > > > Notice the wording... MADE BY LEICA........ > > > > No one AFAIK is shipping a 35 F1.0 lens.... > > > > Frank Filippone > > > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > I don't doubt that the Russians can make a similar camera > > technologically, whether the lens is as good may be a different > > question. However if they are simply rebadging someone else's lenses it > > might not be bad. > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >