Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lenses from Krasnogorsk! Marc James Small wrote: > At 05:53 PM 10/2/2000 -0700, Tom Schofield wrote: > > I have Zeiss eyeglass frames, purchased at Costco, and made in Japan. They > >probably just sold their name. > > Excuse me? This is fascinating if true: the old Zeiss Ikon plant at > Stuttgart has been swamped with orders for many years. Zeiss must be doing > even better than I had realized, if they have to farm out their eyeglasses! > Or, conversely, were these the FRAMES which were made in the East, the > lenses coming from Rochester or Oberkochen or Stuttgart or, heavens!, > Petrograd! > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!