Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Dante A. Stella" wrote: > > Yeah, ask Voigtlander... er Cosina and Contax... er Kyocera and Rollei... er > Samsung and Nikon... er Mitsubishi... > The above is a basket of apples, oranges, and a lemon or two. There is a big difference between someone purchasing the name of a defunct company and putting it on a line of products - i.e., Cosina calling their LTM lenses Voigtlander, and a conglomerate purchasing a company and then operating that company as a division within the conglomerate - i.e., the Nikon and Rollei examples. The idea of stamping Leicas with Leitz and Wetzlar is its own basket of apples and oranges. The Leitz stamp is meaningless - albeit more than a bit pathetic - in that the company is the same, it changed its own name, and wants - allegedly - to now put its original history-ladden name on a line of products. But I would suggest that the Wetzlar issue is different and - forgive me, you Leicaholics - borders on fraud. The products are NOT made in Wetzlar. And putting Wetzlar on a camera made in Solmes is a bit like Kyocera putting a Made in Germany sticker on its G2s - something Kyocera does NOT do. B. D.