Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>There are also no important >differences between Japanese and German design philosophy. Again a >marketing myth. Read my report in the current issue of FOTO about the >Solms and Oberkochen discussions. >Greetings >Erwin > Thanks for the tip Erwin. In the news stand I found the first part of your report, in which you basically say that the approaches of Zeiss and Leica are very similar in that they both work with extremely high quality specifications and very advanced as well as labour intensive manual quality controls. The main difference being that Zeiss allows tolerances of separate lens parts to cancel each other out, where Leica still prefers to compensate for the tolerances of each individual lens part. As a result centreing each lens part becomes even more important in the Leica production process. I am looking forward to reading the second part in which you will compare Japanese to German lens making. Kind regards, Leo Verwoerd <leover@knoware.nl>