Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/7/2005 9:43:59 AM Central Daylight Time, bdcolen@comcast.net writes: One footnote here - Olympus is not Leica - while the so-called "consumer products division" (cameras and voice recorders) is the tail that wags the dog in the public's mind, it is but a very small part of Olympus, which is a world leader in medical technology, microscopes, endoscopes, blood analyzers, etc. In some of those areas Olympus has market share that that resembles that of Microsoft. Leica also has similar products, although probably not on the same scale. I know their microscopes seem to do well, at our company 9 out of 10 microscopes are Leica. Gene