[rollei_list] Re: Patents and Lens Designs
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:48:08 -0400
At 06:15 PM 10/5/2009, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> Actually, Kingslake has very few patents. Mostly the
>lens patents assigned to Kodak while Kingslake was head of
>the optical department were mostly issued to others. Kodak
>had some very fine designers such as Altman and Acklin. I
>think what Kingslake did was to provide a good envirionment
>for these people to work and insured good quality control
>over the manufactured product. Kingslake ran the Kodak lens
>department from about 1939 to his retirement in 1961. Over
>that period Kodak was making some of the very best lenses
>made and had an enviable reputation for consistency in an
>industry that, in general, left final QC to the purchaser.
I would agree with everything up to the last
sentence. As I have been saying, the names on
patents do not note the folks who actually
designed the lenses, and thanks for acknowledging this.
I am not aware that Kodak ever "left final QC to
the purchaser". That sort of sounds like Wal-Mart.
Marc
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