Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:40 PM 11/27/1999 EST, LP6@aol.com wrote: >Why-especially -WW I interests: a pre Leitz environment? Excuse me? Leitz traces its roots back to the middle of the 1800's. Before World War I, they were the principal supplier of microscopes to medical schools in Europe and the US. During the First World War, they were the second largest supplier of binoculars to the German military, after Zeiss. And they had been producing camera lenses since the first decade of this century. LF lenses, it is true. Oscar Barnack was hired by Leitz from Zeiss long before the First World War: he left Zeiss as they wouldn't put him on the management health insurance plan, and he was an asthmatic. Leitz certainly had a healthy presence long before the First World War. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!