[rollei_list] Re: Zeiss Ikon OOB in 1971
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:33:49 -0500
At 12:15 PM 7/22/2010, Marc wrote, in part:
AUSTIN: LISTEN. Lens production started in Germany and ran for
thousands and thousands of lenses until ALL production quirks were
ironed out. Then production shifted to Japan, where hundreds of
thousands of lenses were made. Lenses made by Kryocera were marked
"Carl Zeiss" and "Made in Japan". German and Japanese lenses were
made to identical optical standards and were subjected to the same
final testing standards. All of this is beyond questioning and
Zeiss literature supports this.
I am sure that the Zeiss lens data was measured and printed in
Germany. I still have them.
Now for the topper, which may have been a dealer-generated story. He
said, years ago when I got the RTS, that the glass was made in
Germany and the lens assemblies were done in Japan. All I know for
sure is that the performance of the fixed focal length lenses is
superb and that works for me.
Sad thing is that the RTS sort of just sits there, hoping for an
outing now and then. So much easier to grab a digital and grab a
shot of the dogs, duck, birds, etc. and get it in email to the kids
in a couple of minutes.
Right now my main problem is to find the XD card I had out yesterday
when I photographed a book page for OCR. It's so small compared to a
35mm cartridge that it somehow got lost in the pile of papers
carefully dumped on my desk over the years. I know it's somewhere
and has a few hundred shots on it. . . .
DAW
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