David,
Thanks, you are forgiven. This time. (Only joking!)
Jenoptik has an office here in Silicon Valley, in Fremont, about 30 miles up
the east side of San Francisco Bay from our home.
My guess that Jenoptik had something to do with Jena, Germany was correct,
verified by Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenoptik
I have a postcard sent from Jena by my great uncle Bruce Davis who was studying
music in Europe in the very early 1900s, around 1905.
It is a small world and getting smaller every day.
Bill
On Apr 16, 2019, at 8:09 AM, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
G'Mornin' Bill, and all...
Back on Sunday, I wrote, in part,
Software for the M-8 was contracted out to a firm connected, I believe,
with Sinar - which was later purchased by Leica. Sorry, can't remember
the name of the firm, but I understand that it was their software
division that attracted Leica to Sinar."
I did a little more research and had an epiphany moment in the middle of the
night, which together gives me a clearer picture.
The firm that wrote the firmware for the M8 and DM-R was Jenoptik
(https://www.jenoptik.com/) which turns out to be a giant of a company, and
not related to Sinar at all. My bad.
Whether they wrote the firmware for later Leica digital cameras, I do not
know. Some rumours say that after the M8, software development was moved
in-house, but I cannot confirm that.
All this is a minor point for most of us, but a big error for a photography
historian!
I hope this sets the record straight.
David.
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