Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 10:22 PM 8/12/03 EDT, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: >>Wollensak Optical Co. of Rochester, NY was a well respected lens maker in >the >>40s and 50s. They were among the first US lens manufacturers to use coatings >>and made high quality press and enlarging lenses. I believe the company was >>acquired by Eastman Kodak. A good trivia question among Leicaholics would >be to >>ask if Leica ever supplied a 127mm lens. The Wollensak lens seems to be the >>one and only 35 mm camera lens of that focal length. > >Wollensak supplied the US Army with its excellent fire control optics >during the first two-thirds of the last century. They also supplied the US >Navy with a lot of their fire-control gear. > >This was a first-rate firm capable of producing first-rate optics. > >Marc Was. Is? What happened to them? W-sak or W-sack? Has there been a statement on how the family wants the name spelled? Cheers Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html