Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris To the best of my knowledge, Kodak would never have had any interest in buying Wollensak. Why should they lower themselves? I have compared WOC binoculars with other WW2 manufacturers and have found that even Univex made better ones. Of course the best was Bausch and Lomb. WTF cares about the family preferred spelling? Jerry Christer Almqvist wrote: > >At 10:22 PM 8/12/03 EDT, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: > >>Wollensak Optical Co. of Rochester, NY was a well respected lens maker in > >the > >>40s and 50s. They were among the first US lens manufacturers to use coatings > >>and made high quality press and enlarging lenses. I believe the company was > >>acquired by Eastman Kodak. A good trivia question among Leicaholics would > >be to > >>ask if Leica ever supplied a 127mm lens. The Wollensak lens seems to be the > >>one and only 35 mm camera lens of that focal length. > > > >Wollensak supplied the US Army with its excellent fire control optics > >during the first two-thirds of the last century. They also supplied the US > >Navy with a lot of their fire-control gear. > > > >This was a first-rate firm capable of producing first-rate optics. > > > >Marc > > Was. Is? > What happened to them? > W-sak or W-sack? > Has there been a statement on how the family wants the name spelled? > > Cheers > Chris > > -- > Christer Almqvist > D 20255 Hamburg and / or > F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer > > please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ > > old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html