Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, Your statement about Contax ownership is inaccurate. Zeiss is the owner of the Contax name and licenses its use to Yashica. Kyocera is the parent company of Yashica. Jeff Alford Eric Welch wrote: > At 02:47 PM 4/13/98 -0500, you wrote: > > > >I'm confused. Are these Kyocera lenses related to the Zeiss lenses that are > >sold for the Contax SLRs? What is the relationship between Kyocera and > >Zeiss? > > > > Kyocera owns the Contax name. They make all of the Contax bodies and most > of the Contax Zeiss licensed lenses. Zeiss makes a few themselves. For > example, the 15mm lens, and the 300 2.8 Tele Apo Tessar. I'm sure there's a > few more. But then, there aren't that many Contax lenses, even compared to > Leica. > > The Leica zooms Kyocera makes (and the Nikon 60 Micro is made by them too) > are Leica designs. > ========== > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.