Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/25

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Subject: Re: Leica vs Nikon
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:56:53 -0400

At 02:25 PM 4/25/97 PST, David wrote:
>I have heard some say that Nikon lenses were better than Leica or Contax
lenses but >this is the first time to hear that Nikon rangefinders were
much better made than >Leica.

Since Nippon Kogaku stole -- took without payment -- the designs of the
best lenses of Zeiss and Leitz, their optics may be comparable, but are
hardly "better", any more than a Kiev II is "better" than a Contax II.

Marc



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