Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:32 AM 7/17/96 -0600, you wrote: >At least Leica is still around. Kyocera is a fine company in its own right >and should not be using the Contax logo. Why? Contax is a licensed name from Zeiss in Germany. Wasn't it started up to produce Contax cameras in Japan beacuse they thought it woud be too expensive to do it in Germany? There were lots of technicians in Japan making sure that Kyocera was building them to Contax standards. From the way Blake Ziegler describes the arrangement, the quality factor is still there, and Kyocera now owns the Contax name. And Zeiss only makes a few exotics for the line now, and licenses the formulas for the lenses to Kyocera, but only becaue they build them to their high standards to bear the Zeiss name. I know, many might be queasy with that kid of arrangement if Leica were to move the works to Japan. I would just wait and see if they kept the quality up, and the lens designs "honest." I wouldn't care where they are made. I've said my peace on any other peripheral issue. I won't say any more. No offense meant. =================== Eric Welch Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier NPPA Region 11 JIB chair "I think not," said Descartes, and disappeared.