Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 07:25 AM 10/2/01 -0700, Brian Reid wrote: >>I've looked into the "Reid" Leica copies. Sure wish I had one. >> >>The drawings weren't stolen from Leica. They were captured from the Germans >>when the Allied armies took Wetzlar. > >Brian > >Hans P Rajner states that, "Reid & Sigrist, contrary to rumours, never >copied the Leica with the permission of Leitz, never violated Leitz patent >rights, nor helped itself to design documents recieved by Britain as war >reparations." LEICA COPIES 38. However, Leitz patents were earlier forfeit >under the Alien Properties' Act of 1939, so he does not rule out that such >were ever used in the development of the Reid camera. > >Marc A (perhaps naive) question: as the Reid camera bodies and lenses are virtually identical to Leica camera bodies and lenses, could it be possible that they designed and built them *without* slavishly copying Leitz? Could this be the exception to the "duck" rule (you know: "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, tastes like a duck when you eat it with plum sauce: it is a DUCK")? Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html