Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:48 AM 7/16/04 -0400, Paula Berg wrote: >I am about to purchase my first used Leica lens, a 50mm Summicron M. I am wondering whether there a difference in the quality of lenses made in Canada vs. those made in Germany? > >Thanks. > >Paula Paula Canadian lenses are just so much junk -- just ask Ted Grant who adamantly refuses to use such North American trash and who almost went to prison a couple of decades back when he threatened to blow the Midlands plant to smithereens. Buy only real -- that is, German -- Leica glass. Don't waste time trying to get a decent picture from Canadian lenses. The story that is going around is that the air around Midland is so polluted that it rapidly causes heavy pitting on the glass even before the lenses were shipped. <he grins broadly> Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!