[rollei_list] Re: A Zeiss-Binocular Meet?

Schott makes coffee pots, too.


Eric Goldstein

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On 8/27/08, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  At 04:25 PM 8/27/2008, Marc wrote, in part:
>
> Jerry
>
>  Do not be deliberately thick-witted and, pray, quit being snarky.  The lens
> appears to be a genuine Zeiss product.  The camera body is obviously not a
> Zeiss product, as Zeiss almost never makes camera bodies, but it certainly
> appears to be a Zeiss Ikon body, a parallel company owned by the same
> Foundation which also owns the Zeiss lensworks, the Schott glassworks, and
> the Deckel and Gauthier shutter companies.
>  "Schott" struck a chord with me.  I think that we once had a project with
> Kodak and that company came up with respect to some lenses we were having
> designed for a Microfiche project (yes it was a long time ago).
>
>  Then today I remembered seeing it on the top of our new stove.  The cook
> top is one of these radiant heat systems that appears black unless a heating
> element is on.  At the back there is the note:
>
>  Schott
>  Ceran
>
>  Must be pretty tough stuff and probably has a very low coefficient of
> thermal expansion, it doesn't seem to break from heat or cold.  In any case
> I would assume it's the same company, and there is a much larger market for
> range tops than lens blanks.
>
>  DAW
>
>
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