Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think words like Laboratory, research, are more prestige terms than anything else. By definition a Lab doesn't produce anything that's not experimental. The minute it does it becomes a factory even if QTY is miniscule. Why those Leitz bastards! They've prostituted the laboratory! Javier Duane Birkey wrote: > > I'm not a lawyer..... but reading in between the quotes I find the phrase > "The Leica Glass Laboratory" twice.... > > It would appear to me that Leica USA refers to it as being a laboratory and > not a factory... Outside the quotes Seth uses factory..... So... I don't > know if that is Seth's words or from other references in the article. > Sounds like a topic for the next LHSA convention. Didn't Erwin write about > this????? > > With some 50,000 experimental melts.... and the "up to 10 metric tons in a > single year" we really don't know a whole lot..... as we don't know how > much glass was made in each of the 50,000 experimental melts... For all we > know they had one year where the scientists went overboard in their > experiments.... and then produced 100 pounds other years. > > And this doesn't say anything about mass production of glass.... merely > emphasizes the "The Leica Glass Laboratory" creation of 35 new glass > formulas that made most of Leica's modern lenses possible. > > But I'm not lawyer. > > Duane > > HCJB World Radio > Quito Ecuador > Duane's Photographs of Ecuador > http://ecuadorphotos.tripod.com > > ************************************************* > Seth wrote: > > Here it is, direct from the glasses' mouth, Fall 2001 issue of Leicaview, > published by Leica USA, adapted in turn from an interview with Norbert > Meinert, last manager of the Leitz Glass Factory: > > "The Leitz Glass Laboratory ....operated until 1989......Overall, the Leitz > Glass Laboratory developed 35 new glasses from an estimated 50,000 > experimental melts.....Without the laboratory, in fact, most of the modern > lenses of the period 1949 to 1989 would not have been possible. Because of > its work, the company produced up to 10 metric tons of glass a year, partly > because of close communication between glass researchers and lens designers. > Other large glass manufacturers were often behind Leita/Leica because > optical > glass is of only minor importance to them...." > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- http://63.164.201.182/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html