Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the Leica collectors, not the Leica users, who have arbitrarily assigned an air of illegitimacy to non-German-made Leica items. Some of the greatest Leica lenses ever produced came out of Midland; in fact most of the lenses from the late 60's through the 80's were made there. The fact that they are shunned by collectors and also that they are plentiful, keeps their prices just low enough to lure innocent neophytes into Leicadom ; ) On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:04:03 -0700 Scott Busby <reconair@primenet.com> writes: I'm wondering why lenses made in Canada are of >lower price than those made in Germany. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]