Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to everybody who replied to my request. I am conviced that there is no quality differences between the Canadian and the German lenses. I'll just go shopping for one and go happy shooting. Sorry to those who think I had started a silly Canadian vs German war :-). Cheng-Lee > > ** Reply to note from Jorg Nolte <jon@trc.rwcp.or.jp> 11/01/95 10:44am +0900 > > > > With respect to quality control of former Leitz-Canada, > > the canadian lenses had to pass the rigid german control procedures, I think. > > Therfore I do not believe, they > > are generally worse than the lenses manufactured in Germany > > (this may hold also for the stuff produced in Portugal). > > The only thing I could imagine, that early production could > > have been a little less good, but still good enough. > > Leica used to have a campaign that said: "Leica means precision, world-wide." > The point being that their quality control was the same, regardless of whether > it was Germany, Canada, Portugal or Japan. All the equipment had to go through > QC in Germany before it was sold. This is a very old argument, and has been > disproven years ago. > > Regards, > > Eric Welch > Grants Pass, OR > >