Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] In Defense Of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Optical Industry
From: Marco Grande <hektor73@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:54:24 -0800 (PST)
 
Marc,

>"...most innovative in optical design and development" 

Compared to whom, the Communist Chinese? 

Certainly not comparable to Nikon or Canon.

Marco


>Finally, the Soviets have been most innovative in >optical design and
development.  Among other >innovations are the first commercially
>successful catadioptric lenses (the 8/500 and 10/1000 >MTO's,
introduced at the Brussels World Fair in '58), >the extremely fine
1.5/85 Helios (dating from
>1957), the "Fotosnaiper" series of telephotography >equipment, and
the 5.6/20 Russar MR-2 and the 6/28 >Orion-15 low-cost, high-quality
wide-angles
>for rangefinder cameras.  Their native optical >industry is of the
first water, though 'Soviet' >economics tended to render the results
of most erratic >quality.


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