Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: > My M6 happens to be a Wetzlar one (though with the upgraded meter) and, > thus, is probably all-German. Marc, Your M6 is more probably made from Canadian, Swiss and German parts assembled in Wetzlar. Remember that the M4-P was in production until 1987. Portugal has replaced Canada at one moment. Review of the M6 in Color Photo 4/86 page 96: ""(Leitz)Foto Marketing-ChefWolfgang Müller: "Unser Paradepferd ". Sie wird wieder wie ihre Ahnen M2 und M3 im Wetzlarer Stammwerk produziert. Einige Zulieferteile kommen freilich noch aus Midland, Kanada, wohin es ausgerechnet das Symbol deutscher Kameratechnik 1977 verschlug."" Translated by Altavista (?!?) : Leitz photo marketing chief Wolfgang Mueller: Our parade horse ". It is produced again like its ancestors M2 and M3 in the Wetzlarer parent plant. Some delivery parts certainly still come from Midland, Canada, where it struck calculated the symbol of German camera technique 1977. (Please, feel free to improve the translation) and also ""In accordance with international trade laws, a product has to bear an indication of the country in which the main part of its fabrication took place. Therefore there are Leitz products that are labelled "Made in Germany", including the Leica M6, most leica R lenses...etc..."" Günter Osterloh Leica M, The advanced School of Photography, (1986) Page 246 Lucien