Marc, I find it hard to believe that Woolensock singled me out to be the sole recipient of all their rejects. Whether it be a 2 inch FL enlarging lens to a 127mm lens in Graphex shutter and everything in between.. I was the only person to get the bad ones? I dinna ken that. Why was it that all the Kodak lenses that I had, in the same time frame were superb? From the 3 inch Enlarging Ektar (the 5 element one) to the 6 inch f7.7 Ektar, they were winners (literally, I won contests with the prints or slides from all of them) Wollensak did make nice binoculars and loupes. Jerry Marc James Small 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 > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.0.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/340 - Release Date: 05/15/2006 --- 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