Re: Zeiss trinocular scope

I certainly won't diagree with the fact that the administration of Zeiss 
Jena, particularily from the 1970s onwards was rediculously bloated.  

Another PDF I found online a while back is this:


http://www.sunley.ca/microscope/documents/case-study-jenoptik.pdf


It's specifically a case study of the transition of pre-WWII Carl Zeiss 
Jena, to post-WWII Carl Zeiss Jena VEB, to post-reunification Jenoptik.

It details as well the problems with the way CZJ VEB was administered, 
going as far to say that by 1975 they had an employee surplus of 
approximately 60%.

I have a 1952 Lu stand, a 1967 Lg stand, and a 1966 Epityp 2.  
Mechanically all the stands are exceptionally well made, machined to 
exceptionally high standards and very functional as microscopes.

The Lu and Lg stands are no different than then pre-WWII Zeiss L stands, 
which at their time were the finest and most innovative upright 
microscopes available.  It's true they do not have the flexibility of 
more modern research stands, but just like a Leitz Ortholux.. they're a 
good design that was manufactured to a higher standard than most (if not 
all) comparable microscope stands today.  


In fairness, I have almost exclusively more modern Zeiss Oberkochen 
objectives mounted on these stands (with the exception of the Epityp, 
which requires infinity corrected objectives).  I'm curious as to what 
you noticed about the Jena stands (and which stands they were) for you to  
draw your conclusion about their quality.

Was the optical or mechanical quality?  I've heard others who share the 
same opinion about Jena stands, but I've never actually had anyone 
describe what they particularily noticed to give them that reputation.

I'd put the mechanical quality of my Lu stand against any comparable 
Zeiss Oberkochen stand (be it a WL, GFL, Universal, or newer).


Kevin

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> The German site was just wonderfull.  I have never seen a picture of
> Dr. Abbe that wasn't stiff and formal before.  Zeiss has had a
> wonderfull history however the East German microscopes were... well..
> that word.  Some of the instruments kind of, sort of worked but
> strictly to the level of a second rank system.  There like Meiji is
> today.  I've worked on a few instruments from Jena and they were wall
> to wall awfull.  I can remember when Zeiss bought Jena with money from
> the German government.  One of my buddies was talking with a Zeiss
> executive about that and everything else when the executive got a call
> and had to immediatly fly to Jena, they had just found out what was
> happening at the plant.  The number of workers was astonishing!
> 
> Kevin Cunningham
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