Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/29

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Subject: [Leica] Thoughts on the ZI rangefinder
From: jplaurel at spectare.com (Jim Laurel)
Date: Wed Jun 29 09:28:24 2005
References: <BEE819BD.2189%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Wasn't the CL a Leitz design?  Seems to me that the engineering is  
the important part.  iPods are a true-blue Apple product, though they  
many are made by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Inventec.  Jonathan  
Ives' design work is what matters.

--Jim

On Jun 29, 2005, at 6:26 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Gene E. McCluney wrote a long, very plausible explanation about why  
> the new
> Zeiss is not at all like a Bessa, but then foolishly asked...:-)
>
>
>
>> Is a Leica CL, just a "dressed up" Minolta because that is who  
>> made it, or
>> rather is it a unique camera that has its own merits which  
>> happened to be
>> made for Leitz under contract by Minolta.
>>
>
> Yes, a Leica CL is just a "dressed up" Minolta with an M lens  
> mount. Fun,
> useful, compact, and when mounting a Leica lens, capable of  
> producing images
> as good as those produced by an MP - but a Minolta none-the-less.  
> Which has
> nothing to do with what the new Zeiss will or won't be. :-)
>
>
>
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