Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote: > > Some comments on bits of this thread: > OK, but you must remember that only a few of the Contax SLR lenses are > "European" (if your point is, as seems true for so many on this list, to > avoid Japanese equipment)--most of the lenses are manufactured in Japan, > and, despite Zeiss propaganda, it's doubtful if they really design them all > (the only ones you can be really sure about are ancient, superannuated ones > like the 25, which goes all the way back to bullseye days). I get a little confused here. wasn't quite a few of the lenses for the R made by Minolta? I mean can't you make the same remarks about Leica and the Japaneses and zeiss and the Japanese?