Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens quality from non-Leica factories
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:39:11 -0500

At 10:47 AM 9/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Kyocera
>is a huge, diversified manufacturing conglomerate (they make, among other
>items, centrifugal casting apparatus for fabricating titanium dental
>implants).

Ceramics manufacturing in Japan is a high art, and takes precision that is 
on the level of lens design. And Kyocera, I believe makes a lot of ceramics.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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