[Leica] Your chance to own a Russian Leica M240

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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
> >
> >
> >
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