Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geezz... personally if I wanted a house I would hire a carpenter. - -----Original Message----- From: George Berger [mailto:gberger@his.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:25 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens choice--sole lens for M6 Martin Howard wrote: > >How on Earth do you manage to design something, an inanimate object, that >conjures up those kinds of emotions!? Well, I had an elderly German who worked in the Leitz factory in Wetzlar (1947) tell me: "Contax cameras are made by carpenters, Leicas are made by jewelers." What was true in 1947 still might be true today < big grin >. George George Berger gberger@his.com