Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Vario-Apo-Elmarit 70-180 vs. Vario-Elmar 105-280
From: TM <spaniel@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:26:05 -0800

My stated phrase, "Though manufactured in Canada", was a simple
refutation of the belief of some Leica users I have met that only lenses
and cameras made in Germany are worth owning. Nothing more, nothing
less. 

ted grant wrote:
> 
> Someone wrote:
> 
> <<<<<I bought a used (mint condition) APO 180 f/3.4 from Jim Kuehl early
> last year and have used it often since. Though manufactured in Canada,>>>>
> 
> Hey wake up!!!!!!! Don't tell me whomever you might be that you consider it
> less of a lens because it was made in Canada.
> 
> To give you an idea of this "Made in Canada" lens and its quality factor:
> It was originally designed for USA satellite surveillance to the extent
> they could photograph a parking lot from space and count the lines in the
> parking lot!
> 
> There isn't any other lens that can touch it for the kind of thing it was
> designed for. And wide open you can shave someone from a hundred yards and
> they wont feel their whiskers being cut!
> 
> I suppose you imagine it was secondary because it was made in Canada? Well
> think again about lenses or Leica gear you see "Made in Canada" as it is
> equal to and many cases "superior to that manufactured in the fatherland!"
> 
> So lets be careful out there when some of you guys hold your nose in the
> air about lenses made in Canada!  Or the warriors of the Great White North
> will come riding on our snowmobiles out of the storms with a beer in one
> hand an an R8 in the other using Canada made lenses! :)
> 
> ted
> a warrior of the Great White North! :)