[Leica] Favorite Non-Leica-Leica Lens?

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

At 03:44 AM 6/11/2008, lucien_vd@mac.com wrote:
 >
 >Both Sonnar HFT 40/2,8 and 80/2,8 for the Rollei RF (camera made by
 >Cosina in Japan with a Leica-M mount) were  engraved "Made in
 >Germany" and were made by Rollei Fototechnic under licence from Carl
 >Zeiss, according to "Objektive from Carl Zeiss" brochure 10-029
 >d,e,f,j W-DIV-TS-IX/2002 Roo, distributed by Zeiss during Photokina
 >2002.

Thank you, kind sir!  I actually have that very 
version of the document but failed to check it.  Foolish me!

However, I doubt that these lenses were "made" in 
Germany.  Rollei almost certainly had the lens 
mounts made in Japan and quite possibly the lens 
elements as well, though Zeiss does permit Rollei 
to produce the more mundane lens designs and they 
are quite well equipped to do so.  But, in the 
end, I would suspect that both the mount elements 
and the lens elements came from the Orient and 
were simply assembled in Braunschweig to earn 
that "Made in Germany" label, just as Leica does 
with some of its gear -- parts made in Portugal, 
for instance, but "assembled" at Solms.

Marc


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