Thank you Mark. I know this is true and every time I see the variability of Wallensak products, I am less amazed at the fact of this variability than of the lack of quality control where the same name lens was capable of being dreadful or quite fine. Petrhaps I am unduly anticipating the current situation where a name brand is gold. Or fall in th garbage. --- Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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! > > > --- > 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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --- 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