M8 sold out

[Joop van Heijgen]

I'm not familiar w/the details of the rules & regulations governing country of origin markings in Germany, but if they're anything like the rules & regulations in most of the industrialized world, Leica must be doing something w/the cameras in Germany, e.g., manufacture parts/components, etc., even if much or most of the work is done in Portugal.

It is true that the words "Made In Germany" don't necessarily mean that the cameras are completely assembled in Germany from parts made in Germany, etc. However, if German law is like that in the U.S., then it would mean exactly that (to be legally marked "Made in USA," products must be "all or virtually all" made in the U.S.).

In practice the whole camera ( the M6, MP and M8)) is made in Portugal.

In Germany, the 'factory' places only the cap on the camera and adjust the distant meter, the shutter and light meter, and gives the camera a control check! At last the camera wil get a box (in Solms) to put in it!

On the box you can read 'made in Germany'!