[rollei_list] OT: Wollansak quality
- From: Jerry Friedman <tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 04:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you Mark. I know this is true and every time I see the variability of
Wallensak products, I am less amazed at the fact of this variability than of
the lack of quality control where the same name lens was capable of being
dreadful or quite fine. Petrhaps I am unduly anticipating the current situation
where a name brand is gold. Or fall in th garbage.
--- Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are several among our number who have questioned the quality of
> Wollensak lenses. Wollensak made some fine optical designs over the years.
> And they consistenly won the competitions for the supply of rangefinders
> and gunsights to the US Army from before WWI until well after WWII. On
> several occasions. other competitors included Zeiss and Barr & Stroud, and
> Wollensak did quite well in having fine optical and mechanical quality at a
> reasonable price.
>
> And Wollensak, along with Kodak and Ross in the UK, developed vacuum
> lens-coating about the same time as did Smakula at Carl Zeiss Jena, albeit
> Zeiss was first in the marketplace.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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