The average quality of Nikon lenses in the early 1950s, vs. Leitz or anyone else was influenced by their quality control. I have read stories of visitors to the Nikon plant seeing whole barrels of discarded lenses... each lens, after being made, was tested, and the ones that didn't make the grade were thrown into the trash. --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list