Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/22

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica Optical Web site
From: Bob Sperling <bowtie@abest.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 18:16:54 -0400
 
At 11:17 AM 7/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Excerpts from mail: 22-Jul-96 Re: Leica Optical Web site by Afterswift@aol.com 
>> Didn't Minolta make the Leica CL and its lenses for Leitz back in the good
>> old days?
>    Originally, I believe Minolta made the body, but the lenses (at
>least the 40 Summicron) were Wetzlar.
>    My CL says Japan on the body and Germany on the Summicron.
>
>Stan Yoder
>Pittsburgh 
>
Here is an interesting sidenote:  Originally, Leitz had designed a 40mm F2.8
lens for the Leica CL.  When Minolta showed up with an 40mm F2 Rokkor - with
superior quality, Leitz went back to the drawing board and came up with the
F2 lens - of equal (not superior) quality. 

Bowtie