Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Lens choice--sole lens for M6
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:21:04 -0800

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