Hi, According to the Lieca rep here, it was designed by Panasonic and Leica and is made panasonic. So i would it definately not made in germany or canada like Leica gear.
It still looks like a good camera, you can download 8meg full res files from www.leica-camera.com Cya ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frantisek Vlcek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:19 AM Subject: Re: The Don's Photo show > Sunday, April 21, 2002, 5:42:57 PM, William wrote: > WR> ----- Original Message ----- > WR> From: Frantisek Vlcek > WR> Subject: Re: The Don's Photo show > > > >> > >> Heh, it's that funny zoom 3x f/2-2.2 or so :) Branded as Canon > WR> lens, > >> Zeiss lens, now Leitz lens, on many other cameras it's > WR> unbranded... > >> MOST funny! I can see the old Zeiss/Leitz wars again already: > WR> My > >> digital has got Zeiss lens! Hah, mine has got Leitz lens! it's > WR> the > >> same... Wouldn't surprise me if made in China or Taiwan. > > WR> Well, at least I got to like it for a few hours anyway. > > WR> William Robb > > Bill, > I didn't want to discourage you! From what I heard, the zoom is a > very good one! Just that it is not made by leitz nor zeiss nor > canon or maybe one of them licensed to others. It's quite fast > for a consumer digicam too. It's found on many digicams from > Canon G1 and G2 to the Panasonic, several Sony 3.3 and 4MP > cameras, etc. The usual coverage based on average sensor size is > about 35-105mm equivalent. > > Good light, > Frantisek Vlcek > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
