Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30

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Subject: [Leica] Tessars, Yashica, Kyocera, and <sigh> Anthony
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:17:09 -0400

At 11:46 PM 9/30/1999 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>I still don't understand how Yashica can put a Zeiss lens in the camera and
>still keep the same price point as the competition.  Do they and Kyocera have
>some special deals with Zeiss, or what?

First, Yashica went bankrupt a quarter-century or so back;  there is only
Kyocera now, who bought Yashica.  Second, there is only ONE Tessar design.
One.  A single digit.  Not an "expensive" and a "cheap" Tessar.  Just one
design.  There are crappy Tessars and well-built Tessars, but they are all
made to the same design.  Zeiss has yet to make a "crappy" Tessar.

Marc

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