Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:59 PM 8/20/2008, Philippe AMARD wrote: >I can't see what the problem is, so far as we get the item we've ordered >, knowingly, and at the price its label/tag said it was. >Be maybe I mistook your point ??? >Best regards Yes, I believe that you did misinterpret what I was writing. I was commenting that the US Supreme Court overturned a system that had led to the explosion of non-Leitz LTM lenses in the 1950's. When Peerless and Willoughby and the like could sell Leica and Contax camera bodies at a discount by adding a non-manufacturer lens, then they did so and so a rich market for LTM lenses was born. At that time, Leitz and Zeiss Ikon could control the selling price of camera bodies alone and the selling price of camera bodies equipped with their lenses but not the selling price of a camera body with someone else's lens mounted on it. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!