Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photokina LUG report (1a)
From: Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:48:16 -0400
References: <01C02C5A.C106C8E0.jem.kime@cwcom.net> <3.0.6.32.20001002222719.0091aeb0@pop.roanoke.infi.net>

Lenses from Krasnogorsk!

Marc James Small wrote:

> At 05:53 PM 10/2/2000 -0700, Tom Schofield wrote:
> > I have Zeiss eyeglass frames, purchased at Costco, and made in Japan.  They
> >probably just sold their name.
>
> Excuse me?  This is fascinating if true:  the old Zeiss Ikon plant at
> Stuttgart has been swamped with orders for many years.  Zeiss must be doing
> even better than I had realized, if they have to farm out their eyeglasses!
>  Or, conversely, were these the FRAMES which were made in the East, the
> lenses coming from Rochester or Oberkochen or Stuttgart or, heavens!,
> Petrograd!
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!

In reply to: Message from Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net> ([Leica] Photokina LUG report (1a))
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Photokina LUG report (1a))