Leica tahkoaa rahaa: "Leica, a company with a long history based in the German state of Hesse, concluded a hugely successful 2010/2011 with record sales of €248.8 million, a rise of almost 60 per cent. The operating result or EBIT rose to €41.5 million, almost six times the previous year's figure, while at €36.3 million the consolidated net income was more than 11 times greater than last year. The main sales drivers were the Leica M9 rangefinder system and the Leica S2 professional camera system, with the compact cameras hard on their heels. The Board of Management has reaffirmed its positive forecast for the current fiscal year." Nettotulos on siis viitisentoista prosenttia kokonaismyynnistä. Se on kova luku.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Kyllä käänne on ollut nopea ja voimakaskin, kun esim vertaa niihin tuomionpäiväkesksusteluihin jotka vellosivat ei niin kauan sitten. Hyvä näin!
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Voimme huokaista helpotuksesta ! pari vuotta sitten näytti tosi synkältä ! Tämä antaa lupauksia siitä että Leica voi satsata tulevaisuudessa todelliseen tuotekehittelyyn eli todellisen rangefinder Professional kameran kehittämiseen. Ideoitahan liikkuu netissä vaikka kuinka. Toisaalta voidaan todeta että leica M8 ja M9 lanseeraus osui nappiin: Vähän Hollywood julkkiksia ja showtähtiä roikkumassa maailman lentokentillä leica M9 tai M9-P kaulalla ja nettiin "skuuppina" luiskahtaneita kuvia tästä...Ei voi muutakuin olla hyvillään tästä "diehard leicafanina" tästä.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Tää tiedote ilmeisesti koskee Leica Camera AG:tä eikä koko konsernia? ~ 250 MEUR myynti kuulostaa muuten melko alhaiselta luvulta.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Samaan konserniin nekin kuuluu, tosin kiikaripisnes kuuluu Leica Camera AG:hen elikä samaan tytärfirmaan mihin kameratkin. Leica - Four Independent Companies Share the Leica Brand
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla "Three Independent Companies Share the Leica Brand" Ei tuossa luvussa ole mukana kuin Leica Camera AG. Leica Microsystems GmbH:n omistaa Danaher Corporation, pääkonttori USA:ssa ja Leica Geosystems AG:n omistaa Hexagon AB, pääkonttori Ruotsissa. Edit: niin siis kiikarit, kiikaritähtäimet ja kaukoputket kuuluvat tuohon Leica Cameraan.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Kas, tuon missasin. My bad. No, arvioni perustui siihen (väärään) oletukseen että konserni on olemassa. Ajattelepa itse minkä verran liikevaihtoa tarvitaan koko tuon homman pyörittämiseen ml. Microsystems ja Geosystems osat. Siinä 250 MEUR liikevaihto ei kyllä riitä. Edit: Esim. Geosystemsillä pelkästään 3500 työtekijää. Vai että oikein pleikkaritehdas.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Ei kannata ajatella, kun kerran sitä kokonaisuutta ei ole. Kannattaa lopettaa vanha ajattelu sillä hetkellä, kun huomaa, että on ajatellut ihan väärin. Geosystems ei liity asiaan millään tavalla.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Sun taas kannattais ajatella, ja keskittyä vähemmän viisasteluun. Ja sillävälin käydä vaikka lukemassa tämä: konteksti – Wikisanakirja
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Juu. Muutoinkin kyse on melkoisesta tillkutäkistä, tosin aika laadukkaasta sellaisesta. Mikroskooppipuolella Leican stereot ovat käytännössä sveitsiläisen Wild:in perua, tosin omiakin innovaatioita on alkanut näkyä viime vuosina. Wild oli stereoiden arvostetuin merkki, mullakin on pari heidän 70-luvun kapistusta kotikäytössä. Valomikroskooppipuolella Leicat taitaa olla alunperin Reicherttejä ja Leitzeja, joilla oli erinomainen maine. American Optical ja Bausch & Lomb olivat enemmän bulkkitavaraa mutta kuuluvat nekin Leicaan. Kiikareista en tiedä.
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Leica on "vain" tavaramerkki > LEItz CAmera vuodelta 1924, joka oli Ernst Leitz, Optische Werke, Wetzlarin tuote. yrityksen, joka nimenomaan oli jo tuolloin kuuluisa valomikroskoopeistaan. Dr. Ernst Leitz II: "Barnacks Kamera wird gebaut". Der Handelsname LEICA fur LEIca CAmera wird als Warenzeichen angemeldet. Muutama päivämääriä ja ote yrityshistorian katsauksesta: 1849: Carl Kellner founds an Optical Institute in Germany. 1869: Ernst Leitz becomes sole proprietor of the Optical Institute. 1892: A sales office is opened in New York City. 1920: Ernst Leitz II takes over the business, which is transformed into a public limited corporation. 1924: Ernst Leitz II decides to mass produce the Leica camera. Beginnings in 1849 In 1849, in the German town of Wetzlar, 23-year-old Carl Kellner founded his own Optical Institute. Kellner was very talented in detailed mechanics and interested in optical studies, to which he also applied his studies in mathematics. Specifically, Kellner invented an optical corrected eyepiece with a new combination of lenses that significantly improved the image quality in field glasses and telescopes. His invention was a success among scientists, and Kellner decided to use his knowledge to build a new kind of microscope. In his workshop in Wetzlar, which employed 12 assistants, Kellner started manufacturing microscopes. The first microscope was delivered to Geneva, Switzerland, for testing in 1851. Kellner's microscopes soon earned a reputation among scientists. Because he designed them based on mathematical principles, they generated images of exceptionally high quality. Two years later there were more microscopes leaving the Optical Institute than telescopes. The institute manufactured three types of microscopes with a different number of lenses. As word spread about their high quality, demand grew. Increased demand presented difficulties for Kellner, as the old-fashioned production techniques of his small workshop limited the number of microscopes that could be produced; in the first five years in business only 130 were manufactured. In 1855 Kellner died at age 29 of tuberculosis; his widow married Friedrich Belthle and secured the existence of the Optical Institute. However, the firm's fortunes went up and down and was seriously threatened when Belthle himself became ill. In 1864 Ernst Leitz joined the company. A talented mechanic, Leitz had learned his craft as an apprentice for a German company that manufactured laboratory equipment and in Switzerland with a manufacturer of precision instruments such as electric clocks and telegraphs. One year after he joined the Optical Institute, Leitz became a partner and the firm's name was changed to Optical Institute Belthle und Leitz, Wetzlar, vorm. C. Kellner. In 1867 the Optical Institute manufactured its 1000th microscope. After Belthle's death in 1869 Ernst Leitz--at that time just 26 years old--became sole proprietor of the company and renamed it Optical Institute E. Leitz, Wetzlar. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 made Leitz's business difficult in its first year. However, his organizational talent and extensive experience together with an expanding market for microscopes led to the growing success of the company. One of the major decisions he made as an entrepreneur was to switch from the slow, labor-intensive manufacturing by hand to serial manufacturing, which would soon became the industry standard. In addition to its economical efficiency, the new production techniques improved the quality standards of the microscopes, which in turn made them more reliable for scientific research. Leitz also presented and demonstrated his products at many scientific congresses. In the last decades of the 19th century the use of microscopy increased rapidly with the rising popularity of natural sciences. In 1892 a sales office was opened in New York City which later became E. Leitz, U.S.A. By the turn of the century the Leitz company had gained a worldwide reputation. By 1900 the Leitz company consisted of several facilities, oversaw 400 employees, and produced about 4,000 microscopes a year. By 1910, the company was manufacturing 9,000 microscopes annually and employing a workforce of 950. From a product line of fewer than 20 different types of microscopes and three different tripods, the company had expanded to produce 34 different microscope types including 21 different microscopes for medical and biological research as well as for scientific education in schools and universities; four different microscopes for geological and mineralogical research; and nine microscope types with distinct tripods for special uses such as for museums, measurement, brain research and other specialties. Also during this time, the 100,000th Leitz microscope was shipped to German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize Laureate Robert Koch. During World War I, between 1914 and 1918, the Leitz company was obliged by the German government to convert to war production. New Generation of Leitz Leadership in the 1920s Although Ernst Leitz's eldest son Ludwig had been involved in management of the family business, he died in an accident in 1898. Leitz's second son, Ernst Leitz II who joined his father's company as an apprentice in 1889, was then groomed for leadership, becoming responsible for new business development and management of the production facilities and eventually becoming his father's partner. Leitz II placed a high priority on research and development, adding optical measuring instruments for industrial use to the Leitz product line. When his father died in 1920, Ernst Leitz II took over the business and transformed it into a public limited corporation. Four years later Ernst Leitz II decided to begin mass production of a new invention, the first Leitz camera, called the Leica. The company had long offered drawing aids for reproducing images seen under microscopes when Leitz II tapped Oskar Barnack to experiment with developing a small-format still camera for that purpose. The result was Barnack's invention of the world's first 35-mm camera. Barnack's idea of reducing the format of photo negatives and enlarging them after exposure revolutionized photography. The first photos with this new camera taken in 1914 were of exceptional quality. However, the further development of the new technology was interrupted by World War I. The Leica camera was finally offered to the public for the first time at a trade show in 1925 in Leipzig. In 1926 the first Leitz 35-mm projector for slides or film strips was produced. The first auto-focus enlarger followed in 1933. In the field of cameras, lenses, and photography accessories, the Leica set the quality standard for the world until well after World War II. Leica camera technology provided new inroads to microscopy, merging the two into the new field of photomicrography, in which a camera affixed to a microscope by a connecting tube could capture highly magnified images. Other new Leitz products of the time included a biological polarization microscope and the photometer, a device that measured illumination. The photometer was designed by Max Berek, a microscope expert who had worked for Leitz since 1912 and developed the very successful f/3.5 Elmar lens for the original Leica camera. Lähde: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Leica-Microsystems-Holdings-GmbH-Company-History.html
Vs: Hyvin pyyhkii Leicalla Kiitos Esa ! tuossa oli kohta, joka minua, nuorta valokuvaajaa 60-luvulla hämmästytti, ja saa minut ihmettelemään edelleen: Kuvasin Kodachrome dian, jossa maailma näytti PAREMMALTA kuin todellisuus, oli häviävän pieni muovinpala pahviraamissa mutta suurennettaessa koko aukeaman kuvaksi aikakausilehdessä, ja monistettuna satoinatuhansina kappaleina, ja ihailtavissa kadunvarsilla ja lehtikioskeissa, sai minut tuntemaan huikaisevaa kihelmöintiä kämmenissä ja pääkopassa. Toivon että nykypolven kuvaajat saisivat kokea jotakin vastaavaa.