Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:47 AM 12/27/96 -0800, you wrote: >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? Yes, absolutely! What I was after in saying what I did was that I would like to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the cameras, regardless of their national origin, rather than assume that anything European must be better than anything Japanese. I happen to own a Leica lens made in Japan--the first 35-70--and think a lot of it. Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU