[Leica] Where is M240 made?

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

Very few, if any, products of any complexity are manufactured anywhere in 
the world out of entirely locally made materials and parts.
The convention nowadays is usually where final assembly and checking takes 
place. Leica has been making camera subassemblies in their Portugal factory 
for decades. People have been childish about this fairly often in the past. 
Leica made cameras and both designed and made lenses in their Canada 
factory, now no longer theirs, for a long time. Those planned to be built 
there are labeled "made in Canada", there are a few collectors items here, 
and a few wrongly labeled probably due to last minute changes in production 
plans.
AFAIK Portugal only makes sub-assemblies. The final cameras, using these 
sub-assemblies, and lenses are made in Germany, and labelled as such.

So nothing has changed about this in decades, and there is no need to be 
unreasonable about it. All big companies do it.

FD

On 12 Oct, 2013, at 23:44, mehrdad <msadat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> Larry
> 
> 
> hi larry, Czechoslovakia is now czech republic, in response to the topic, i
> truly think leica needs to be truthful, and protegees people should be
> proud that m240 is made there. as simple as that.
> 
>  -------------------------------------
>  regards, mehrdad
> 
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