Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excerpts from mail: 12-Jul-99 Leica Users digest V10 #16 by Leica Users digest@mejac > At 08:30 AM 7/12/99 -0500, Bud Cook wrote: > >Is there an English language book about Carl Zeiss products similar to > >Dennis Laney's Leica Collector's Guide? > > Modesty SHOULD preclude my pointing this out, but there is such a work: > Barringer and <ah-HEM> Small, THE ZEISS COMPENDIUM, Hove, 1995. > > Marc Well, modesty aside (and irrelevant), I will say that the Zeiss Compendium is a most useful tome, both for the postwar corporate history and the tech details. I refer to it constantly. And it works well with Tubbs' book on Zeiss Ikon to 1939. There are perhaps a few errors in B&S (not BS!), but Tubbs has his share also. Stan Yoder Pittsburgh