Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:09 PM 5/12/2001 +0800, you wrote: >When did Leitz enter the photographic market? Sometime in the first decade >of the 20th century as far as my books tell me. Of course they were an >optical firm before that but they did not have experience in the field of >mass market photo equipment for decades after Konica had been at it and >their first commercial camera was approximately half a century after Konica >had been in the photo business. This means to me that the heritage of Konica >is not be dismissed lightly even though they are not the particularly altar >we worship at. No one is being disrespectful of Konica nor of their heritage: I am simply attempting to ensure that all of us understand the historical record, myself included! I believe Leitz first offered microscope cameras in its 1890 catalogue but, again, my references are hopeless buried at the moment. In that sense, then, Konica was in "the photographic business" a decade or so before Leitz. But, again, I don't see this as rigidly compartmentalized as others seem to view it -- one optical competency leads to another, the design of a microscope objective provides the expertise to design camera objectives, and so forth. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!