Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/23

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Subject: Re: WAS--[Leica] RE: Longevity of Leica products; NOW (OT) Pentacon, Dresden
From: Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:55:12 -0800 (PST)

They are still making industrial gadgetrs but their
camera production is dead. The lenses they sell are
relabeled stuff, possibly samyang. They may still make
binoculars though. And while I'm not sure they may be
affiliated with an outfit called jenoptik.
Javier

- --- Robert Marvin <marvbej@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> -- 
>   Nathan,
> 
> Pentacon Dresden is still  in business (although as
> Pentacon GMBH 
> rather than VEB Pentacon) and will still repair
> Pentacon 6 and Exakta 
> 66 cameras.
> http://www.pentacon-dresden.de/english/
> 
> I've read( on the 'Kiev Report') that they will
> modify  Pentacon 6s 
> with the newer Exakta 66 wind mechanism.
> 
> Its nice to know that a remnant of Zeiss Ikon ( in
> the historic, if 
> not legal sense) still exists.
> 
> Bob Marvin
> 
> At 8:37 AM -0800 2/23/03, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> 
>   I can even have my newly purchased Pentacon
> repaired in Germany, even though the company that
> made them no longer
> exists. And so on.
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