Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/27

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Subject: Re: R vs Zeiss lens prices
From: Mark Bergman <BMWR100R@mwci.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 08:47:41 -0800

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?