Re: reichert and yung question

From: Gordon Couger (gcouger_at_NOSPAMprovalue.net)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:08:16 -0500

Lucia has been buying everything in sight for years. They own the rights to
Leitz, AO Spenser, Reichart, Wild, and others and Zeiss did not pick up one
during the same period. Buying other companies does not fit Zeus's business
model. Do some research on how Zeiss operate and you will see what I mean.
They are not a company that is looking for increasing business by acquiring
new plants and workers. Their mission is to Zeiss products, workers and
customers only. Buying another company and exporting the jobs would not be
done.

Zeiss is a owned by a non profit foundation and run more like a socialist
goverment would run an operation than a capitalist country would run one. It
is amazing that it as lasted for well over 100 yeas rebuilding after 2 world
wars after being split in 3 pieces in the second world war by the west
skimming the best educated people and best works and moving them to west
Germany, The Russians taking the best of what was left and the modern
equipment and relocating them to St. Petersburg where they still make the
most cost effective microscopes on the market today. They are a bit out of
date but research is picnicking up now that their salaries are being paid
and they don't have to steal stock and hide it in their lunch boxes and sell
it on the black market to get money for food and rent. The workers left in
east Germany took what equipment they had and dug out the material they had
hidden and bought begged and bartered for what they didn't have and were
making microscope that rivaled the quality of the best scopes they ever made
shortly after they started. The scopes they made in the late forties and
most of the 50's are as good as any Zeiss scopes ever ,made. Over the years
the communist system took its toll on Zeiss aus Jenna and thier quality
declined but until the chaos that followed the fall of the USSR they made
good sound scopes. that were good values for the price. During the chaos
after the fall of the USSR they faired better than Lomo in keeping thier
quality but avoid eastern Elopement scopes and other thing manufacture in
those years. Counterfeiting, selling scopes that were built at home from
parts taken from the plant with no quality control are far to common. Unless
you are willing to use the money to start a fire don't invest it in a
microscope form that time and area with out extensive testing by some one
qualified to tell you if it is a good scope. There are real bargings in that
group but many more chances to waste your money or a great deal of time
bringing a scope up to good performance.

Every opportunity to loose usefully is an opportunity to make a very good
deal of money but the odds usually are against you as the risk increase.
There is not a big market for east German scopes but you can buy the
equivalent scope for 30 cent of the dollar or less that it would cost if
came from the east German plant.

Zeiss aus Jena is no more it has be absorbed into the western Zeiss plant as
if the time had never separated them so any Zeiss Jena scopes being sold are
old stock, used or counter fit. 

-- 
Gordon
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"news.ntlworld.com" <wilf@ltic.moc> wrote in message news:Q%tEc.73$NX
4.30@newsfe1-win...
> id heard that the microscope division of leica was bought  by Zeiss and
all
> production was moving to far east so we can look forward to leica
> microscopes disappearing  now.
> "Kevin Cunningham" <smskjc@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:pZMjc.13518$gH6.7639@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> >
> > "Carlshead" <carlshead@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:RqEjc.32299$NR5.17508@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> > >
> > > "Kevin Cunningham" <smskjc@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > > news:1qzjc.4917$g31.1007@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > >
> > > > "shahar" <nr_dawn@netvision.net.il> wrote in message
> > > > news:c6m764$gpe$1@news2.netvision.net.il...
> > > > > Greetings
> > > > > we have a R&Y model MEF3
> > > > > first i was wondering if any one knows if R&Y have a web site (or
> > which
> > > > > company bought them in case they are out of buisness)
> > > > >
> > > > > id'e like to know if there's a way to assemble a c mount outlet on
> the
> > > mic
> > > > >
> > > > >     thanks
> > > > >         shahar
> > > > >
> > > > Reichert is owned by Leica which is owned by a French private
holding
> > > > company.  In the near future they will probably get rid of all their
> > > > histology stuff.  Right now they produce a lot of it at the old
> Reichert
> > > > plant, that plant doesn't make microscope any more.  When I needed a
> > > c-mount
> > > > for a Reichert MEf 3 I went to Diagnostics (www.diag.com).  Their
> > adapters
> > > > are well made and actually work.
> > > >
> > > > Kevin Cunningham
> > >
> > > The Leica MEF4 is still manufactured at the "old" plant in Austria.
And
> > the
> > > Diagnostic Instruments adapters work perfectly IF your MEF3/MEF4 have
> > > already have a side dual reflex module.  Send pictures to Diagnostic
> > > Instruments of your scope to ensure compatibility.
> > >
> > > Where did you come up with the drivel, "Leica will probably get rid of
> all
> > > their histology stuff" and "owned by a French holding company"?  If
you
> > have
> > > that kind of insider knowledge, you wouldn't be repairing microscopes
> for
> > a
> > > living.
> > >
> > > Carl
> >
> > Sir,  This isn't insider information, it's what you are supposed to
know.
> > Leica probably will sell their histology division to Sakura in the next
> few
> > months, the problem is their domination of the European market.  Since
Dr.
> > Schmidt-Heine sold E. Leitz the successor owners have sold of most of
Wild
> > and have changed the Reichert plant.  Most stereos are made in Singapore
> for
> > instance.
> >
> > I do repair microscopes and do a very good job.  If you instrument is in
> > need of repair please feel free to contact me.
> >
> > Kevin Cunningham
> > SMS
> >
> >
>
>

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