[Leica] Happy Birthday Zeiss Optical!

[Mark Rabiner]

It just appears that Leitz goes back as far as Zeiss.
The first camera lens most people think goes to Zeiss.
Microscopes and such are not my interest only that a company who does one
seems to also do ok at doing the other.


On 3/21/15 6:26 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> ?? Rather than:
> 
> "Carl Zeiss is a German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial
> measurements and medical devices, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician
> Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined
> 1884) they built a base for modern optics and manufacturing."
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Mark Rabiner
> 
> "In 1849, Karl Kellner founded the Optical Institute in Wetzlar, Germany.
> Telescopes were the original emphasis, but within a few years microscopes took
> over as the main product. The company hired a very capable engineer named
> Ernst Leitz in 1865, who soon became a partner. Leitz took over the company in
> 1869 and renamed it Optical Institute of Ernst Leitz. "
> 
> 
> On 3/21/15 5:26 PM, "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
> 
>> Zeiss is far older than that. The company was founded in the 1850s to
>> make eyeglasses and microscopes.
> 
> 
> 
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