Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:38 PM 9/25/2006, Douglas Sharp wrote: >What I also wanted to add was the small snippet >from the Jenoptik (was Carl Zeiss Jena) pages. >Jenoptik is the owner of "Robot" - yes, they >still exist - and is currently involved in >converting their products (traffic surveillance cameras) to digital >technology. It's tad more complex than that. JENOPTIK consists of parts of the old CZJ combine such as the Eisfeld and Saalfeld works but the actual Jena lens plant is now the home of Carl Zeiss' optical research and still produces scientific and astronomical gear, though the gnomes of Heidenheim are a bit secretive about exactly what gones on at Jena. The CZJ archives are located at Jena and are now open on a limited basis to researchers. JENOPTIK is owned by a partnership of commercial and government entities but the majority share is held by the Zeiss Foundation and the company is effectively controlled by Zeiss. JENOPTIK also ended up with a bunch of the former Pentacon camera company: when Communism collapsed, Pentacon was effectively divided between Carl Zeiss and Mandermann, with the Noble family regaining what was left of KW. The Noble works later went bankrupt and I believe that JENOPTIK got that, as well. It is all quite convoluted and hard to sort out. Some economist will do his PhD thesis on this subject around 2150, but we might not know the full story until then. And then there's the Jen?r Glasswerke ... Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!