[rollei_list] Re: Zeiss Ikon OOB in 1971
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:34:13 -0400
At 01:27 AM 7/22/2010, Don Williams wrote:
>My Contax RTS has an electronic shutter. Where does it fit into this story?
>
>The story at the time I bought it (gold-plated
>demo) is that the lenses were made in Germany
>while the bodies were made in Japan. It may have
>been that the glass came from Germany but the
>final lenses were assembled in Japan. Guess I'll
>have to have a look at the lenses to see the country indication.
Save for the exotics -- extreme telephotos and
extreme wide-angles -- all Contax RTS lenses were
made in Japan from Japanese
glass. Yashica/Kyocera insisted that final
quality control be by Zeiss inspectors so, for
years, the room in which these inspectios were
done was supposedly called "the round-eye room"
but, towards the end, Zeiss hired Japanese and Indians as inspectors.
Your lenses should say, "Made in Japan", as this is the case.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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