[rollei_list] Re: Wollensak Optical Quality
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:59:14 -0700
Marc,
I find it hard to believe that Woolensock singled me out to be the sole
recipient of all their rejects. Whether it be a 2 inch FL enlarging lens
to a 127mm lens in Graphex shutter and everything in between.. I was
the only person to get the bad ones? I dinna ken that.
Why was it that all the Kodak lenses that I had, in the same time frame
were superb? From the 3 inch Enlarging Ektar (the 5 element one) to
the 6 inch f7.7 Ektar, they were winners (literally, I won contests with the
prints or slides from all of them)
Wollensak did make nice binoculars and loupes.
Jerry
Marc James Small 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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