Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Contax N1
From: ken@iisaka.org
Date: 9 Nov 2000 00:23:26 -0800
 
On Wed, 08 November 2000, Mike Johnston wrote:
> 
> Apropos of the Contax N1, I'd propose that the only reason Contax has gone
> AF is because its future digital cameras have to have AF. And the reason
> Zeiss went along is that they've made a fortune lately putting lenses on
> Sonys. Contax's move to AF may be big news to 35mm photographers but I doubt
> very much it was done with the film-camera market uppermost in mind.

Well, technically speaking, Zeiss didn't make many of these lenses, but Sony paid money to Zeiss to let them put Zeiss name on them.