I believe most of those companies just license the use of their name. I
doubt they actually design the lenses much less produce them. Just like
that Schneider labeled lens that is obviously a Pentax lens.
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Adam Maas wrote:
Leica actually does the lens design for Panasonic (Leica is also a
lens-design shop and makes one-off and short-run industrial lenses).
Zeiss does the same for several makers, including Sony and formerly
Hasselblad.
-Adam
Albano Garcia wrote:
A good example of what you can expect when you buy a
digicam from Sony (Zeiss), Panasonic (Leica) or Kodak
(Schneider): simply a cool logo from the old days over
a plastic lens made by the camera manufacturer (Oh,
yes, yes, Zeiss designed it specifically, sure,
sure... :-)
Regards
Albano
--- Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just the name, in this case. Everything else is
Pentax DA, including size and detials such as that bright metal ring
(blue
instead of green), chrome lens label (look beneath the pentaprism
protrusion)...
Only a bit disguised by old-style square rubberised
rings.
Dario
Samsung sourced Schneider lenses for their
long-gone film SLR. That one
shown on their DSLR has "Schneider" written on
it...
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