Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 35mm Lens for a 3f or IIIc
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:44:37 -0500

At 08:57 PM 2/14/2001 -0000, Jem Kime wrote:
>Not sure Marc,
>they are sold as Helios, though I think some of the later Helios stuff was
actually manufactured in Japan wasn't it?

"Helios" was, at first, a Zeiss brand and, after the War, became a Soviet
brand -- the Helios-40 and -44 lenses are very much still in production.
Never heard of an Oriental connection.

Marc

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