Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Testing & manufacturing techniques at Solms
From: TEAShea@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:54:19 EDT

This is very interesting.  Generally, well designed computer controlled 
equipment produces better quality than handmade efforts.  For example, the 
same hold true for computer controlled robotic painting of production 
automobiles.  (Not including here the $20,000 paint jobs for concourse 
automobiles).

Tom Shea

<< but the Leica company soon found
 that this time-honoured technique was not good enough for the latest
 generation of lenses. Now the individual glass elements are moulded to
 approximate shape at the glass works, then individually ground at
 Solms on a computer-controlled machine >>