Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:11 AM 7/27/01 -0600, Kevin M. Bell wrote: >The lenses are produced in Japan, under license. As far as I know, none >are produced in Germany. They still use Schott glass and the manufacture >is directed or supervised by engineers from Carl Zeiss. This can be a slippery term, as most of the more mundane Schott glasses are now made by Hoya -- they are so listed in the Schott Catalog, that industry standard. Thus, the actual glass used in the Kyocera plant to make a given Zeiss lens might well come from the Hoya plant in Japan. No problem: the Hoya standards used for their Schott glasses are quite high. (And, yes, I have had unfortunate problems with the quality of Hoya filters, but that isn't the same glass used in their Schott formulae.) It has been the custom that newly introduced or exotic (really wide-angle or extreme telephoto) designs are made at Oberkochen, while production of other lenses moves early in the run to Kyocera. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!