Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:24 PM 11/27/1999 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: >Yes, of course it would be Leica-designed. However, you might be >interested to know that a fairly high-up source at Zeiss told me that >the Kyocera-built lenses had slightly higher QC than the German-built >lenses. Hmm. I would doubt this and suspect you were being fed what the fellow thought you'd want to hear. Oberkochen and Kyocera have PRECISELY identical QC standards and the inspection crews are identical: Zeiss has hired some Orientals, now, for its inspectors, though I believe from Hong Kong. So, we have recently had the interesting aspect of an Oriental inspecting lenses at Oberkochen and Germans inspecting lenses at Kyocera. I've never noted any difference between Kyocera and Oberkochen, and, given Zeiss's industrial practices, would be most curious how such could be. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!