Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V3 #311
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:32:11 +0100

From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>:
>The Japanese make superb amateur astronomical equipment but very little=20
>of it is marketed here, as their equivalent of a $3,000 pair of Zeiss
>binoculars is every bit as good as the Zeiss glasses -- but costs $3,000=
,
>so they concede the US and European markets to the Germans.   In the
>meantime, we get their second-string gear, the Nikon and Fuzzinon
>binoculars.  (Of course, if the yen continues its downward spiral, we mi=
ght
>start seeing some of the top-notch gear over here!)"

Right. Exceptions include the spectacular TeleVue line of telescopes
manufactured in Japan. These things are phenomenal - optically in
the Zeiss/Leica class (some using fluorite elements), and I wish I=20
could afford one. They, like Leica and Zeiss, ain't cheap.

(Disclaimer: I used to sell these things at Orion Telescope Center,=20
but that was ~ 10 years ago. I have no $ interest in Orion or TeleVue.) =20

- -Alexey
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