Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica selling out!?
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:00:28 -0400

Marc,
Kiev 's weak point, as you point out is their quality assurance!
With as many complaints from the LUG about Leica lenses that fall apart,
flaky dinglehoobies, and interior smudgies, I do shudder to think what might
happen. <BIG grin here!>
I do think that the KIEV USA company has gone a long way toward remediating
the situation; I am sure that market pressures on Kiev will eventually make
their operation better. I have seriously thought about a Kiev, especially
since Herbert Keppler's article in the July Pop Photography, but Old Thing
tells me I have more cameras than I can carry now, so I must wait!
This Ukraine outfit made/makes the Fed and Arsenal cameras too, don't they?
Dan'l
dwpost@msn.com