Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Joy - check your attributes before you bang off a reply such as that below. I am the one who wrote the statement about milling, cutting, and so forth, however I'm not German - Fin/Norwegian ancestry <G>. AND, I refuted the statement that anything marked "Solms" was not of "Leitz" quality, which would make me of the other camp. So, given that, how am I supposed to answer your question? BTW, it's nice to have you here. You sound pretty level headed, and obviously you love the quiet little cameras. >In a message dated 97-08-01 09:48:33 EDT, you write: > >In einer eMail vom 31.07.97 02:28:2, schreiben Sie > > << It is silly to > suggest that the folks at Solms are not those same folks who turned and > milled and cut and ground parts in Wetzlar. >> > >BEN - read this carefully, you have a habit of changing words around >in your statements & therefore changing the meaning. > > Actually, they are the same people. Leica Solms is merely an assembly and > testing area, besides this marketing, pr and other administration >departments > are located there. A lot of Leica parts still are made in Wetzlar (which is > only three miles away from Solms). When Leica made the M6J, they really > activated machinery last used to make M3 parts. However: 70 Percent of the > assembly of any M6 is done in Portugal. But I think they do it that way at > least for the last 15 years. > Ben - is the origin of a product where it is assembled or where the parts >are made? My PC has parts made in a half dozen countries & assembled in >Thailand. Do you believe what the German gentleman has written above >or have the workers from Wetzlar moved to Portugal > >Joy Lindstrom > Regards, Ben W. Holmes Boulder, CO visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/ Leica serial numbers and Leica classifieds are no longer available http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/photodat.htm