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Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Hi Tom and thanks for your kind words. That FL looks like a real beauty and I am sure you will enjoy it. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Great idea Tim, look forward to it, and thanks for your kind words. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Gijs Yes I know because you have told me before. This is why I made the suggestion! :-O :-O Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Maybe we should get Tobias and Gijs in the same room and record the discussion. :-O Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Indeed and many things written in the Bible had already been written about in the legends of surrounding kingdoms, for example the great flood features in legends from Mesopotamia and Persia. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Chris it strikes me that there are some similarities between the perception of colour and our perception of the solidity of objects. At the particle level these objects are far from a substance of continuous density but the strong forces between particles creates a substance that is for all... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Not entirely true. Light certainly has a wide range of frequencies and these are perceived not only by human brains and those of other animals but also by many, many insects. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Hi Joachim Thanks for your post, in fact there were some changes after the press release that you mention as a result of negotiations with the works council which reduced the job losses. But the main point is that Wetzlar remains the main production site and all commercial and development... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Hmmm. I quizzed a few Zeiss folks about this and nobody was prepared to comment, but then, I am not a dealer so maybe In Focus got the inside info. I don't think there is any point in trying to get more info out of Zeiss about this at the moment because they will probably want to keep their... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
You might be right there John. If Troubadoris starts saying things like 'hmm, those curtains are a nice kind of greeny-hammy colour' then I am in big trouble..... :eek!: Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
CJ LOL indeed. This is not what others have reported at all. There has been mentioned a 'greenish', or 'yellow-greenish' cast, and most on here don't see either. Nobody has reported a pinkish-grey-green cast so your unique perception is a puzzle. Prof Gijs van Ginkel who has experience of... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
CJ I have never heard anyone liken any colour of anything to ham in any way. Over here ham means cured pork of a particular cut and the salt makes it a deep red colour which kind of sounds weird when mixed with green as you descibe it. When cooked our ham/salt-cured pork goes grey but if... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
CJ Vespo's screen shot is more or less identical to the page in the 2018-19 Nature Catalogue which has not yet been put onto the Download Centre of either the Zeiss UK or Zeiss Germany websites. I am sure the HT glass is in the prisms as this is the most obvious place to put it but Zeiss... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Hi 45 Here is what Herr Schmitz said: "To be very clear, Wetzlar remains Sports Optic’s key manufacturing site, with all critical components being manufactured there and all final assembly and quality assurance performed there". He also said that some parts may be made at the Zeiss factory in... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
James I wondered if Zeiss look back with embarrassment at the 'up to more than 95%' line for HT and are just being more modest these days. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Thanks Chuck. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Alexis I will pass this on. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
James and Alexis I actually had this on a list of minor topics to mention if we had time but in the end despite Herr Schmitz spending more than an hour with me there just wasn't time to go through that list. Herr Schmitz is in New York just now but when he returns I will mention this to him. Lee -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
My guess is that their marketing plan was that the HT 42 and 54 were the low-light binos with High Transmission glass and they did't want to confuse their marketing message by saying 'oh by the way SF has HT glass too'. Now HT 42 is discontinued this frees them up to mention HT glass in SF and... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Thank you Canip. We walked away from Bird Fair to my car parked in one of the huge fields acting as car parks, and sat in it to do the interview so we would not be interrupted by visitors to the Zeiss stand. It was a little bit surreal sitting in my old Skoda with Herr Schmitz sitting where... -
Interview with the new head of Zeiss Sports Optics
Late in 2017 the media reported the loss of 220 jobs (inaccurately as it turns out) at Sports Optics in Wetzlar, and the creation of 70 jobs in Oberkochen. A trade union representative speculated that future manufacturing would be done at the Zeiss factory in Hungary. These news items raised...