Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:43 PM 5/31/96 -0400, you wrote: >Well, not quite on target. Novoflex purchased their initial (1940's & >1950's) lenses from Steinheil and has contracted with the firm of Dr >Staeble for the past thirty years or more for their optics. Shoot, the way things are going, they're probably built by child labor in Pakistan for 60 cents a lens. Sorry for the black humor, but just read an article in the latest LIFE magazine on child labor and I'm burining mad!!!!! Are you sure they're still using those lenses? I heard somewhere they were only using Leica lenses now and had dropped the old lenses. >I hadn't heard they got bought out -- by whom? Some reason the name Bogen (recently bought Gizto and a while back Metz) comes to mind, but I don't think so. Anybody know? ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier