Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:05 PM 7/26/01 +0100, Bob Walkden wrote: >In the catalogue they write "B+W supplies filters to namebrand >European camera manufacturers...". Not too many of them around. I >wonder who they mean? Hmm. Zeiss Ikon is gone, and most of the Italian and British brands. But both of the Brauns are still in business, and Berning, and a bunch of others. What has happened is that most of the companies producing consumer optics in the 1950's have shifted to scientific, industrial, or tenchical work, where the REAL money can be found, and, thus, popular brands from long ago which we no longer encounter at our village camera store are very much still in business, but with gear we will never see. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!