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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 563459" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>I came out of the machine tool industry, and watched the Japanese pretty much become the dominate source in the industry. Then the Koreans backdoored them and stole much of their technology. Then the Chinese did the samething. Eachtime the quality and engineering lost something. But the Japanese got their start by stealing technology from the United States. There ain't nothing new under the sun, and you can pretty much figure that if it's new to you; somebody's been doing it for a long time. Now we live in a society that almost encourages this action!! </p><p> </p><p>The Japanese have always made good optics, and this hasn't just came about in the last thirty five years. It goes back seventy five years or so. The Germans as well did great optics as well as some eastern block nations. The Germans were the folks that developed lense coatings and went so far as to develope the process for multicoated lenses. Then the Japanese stole it from them (or was possibly given to them by the Nazis). Not really important now as all the copyrights are long gone. I've never seen a grinder built to grind lenses, so I can't say a lot about them. Yet I suspect the idea came out of Germany a hundred plus years ago. It's common knowledge that the Germans had far better gun sights than the Allies did all thru the war, and in some cases we simply copied their designs (Revi gunsight comes to light). Their tanks had much better range due to better optics and of course a more powerfull round. We adopted much of their concepts after the war (and so did the Russians). Now days it's not that we can't build better optics (look no further than the G.M./Hughes Aircraft thermo imaging gun sight usd on the M1 tank). We can do this if we want to bad enough, but we as a nation are also operating on a REIT based economy. The real problem is that dollar and cents wise we can't compete with an economy based on twenty five to forty cents an hour; quality or not. Most folks think dollars and cents above quality and performance. I come from the school that says " you get what you paid for!"</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 563459, member: 25383"] I came out of the machine tool industry, and watched the Japanese pretty much become the dominate source in the industry. Then the Koreans backdoored them and stole much of their technology. Then the Chinese did the samething. Eachtime the quality and engineering lost something. But the Japanese got their start by stealing technology from the United States. There ain't nothing new under the sun, and you can pretty much figure that if it's new to you; somebody's been doing it for a long time. Now we live in a society that almost encourages this action!! The Japanese have always made good optics, and this hasn't just came about in the last thirty five years. It goes back seventy five years or so. The Germans as well did great optics as well as some eastern block nations. The Germans were the folks that developed lense coatings and went so far as to develope the process for multicoated lenses. Then the Japanese stole it from them (or was possibly given to them by the Nazis). Not really important now as all the copyrights are long gone. I've never seen a grinder built to grind lenses, so I can't say a lot about them. Yet I suspect the idea came out of Germany a hundred plus years ago. It's common knowledge that the Germans had far better gun sights than the Allies did all thru the war, and in some cases we simply copied their designs (Revi gunsight comes to light). Their tanks had much better range due to better optics and of course a more powerfull round. We adopted much of their concepts after the war (and so did the Russians). Now days it's not that we can't build better optics (look no further than the G.M./Hughes Aircraft thermo imaging gun sight usd on the M1 tank). We can do this if we want to bad enough, but we as a nation are also operating on a REIT based economy. The real problem is that dollar and cents wise we can't compete with an economy based on twenty five to forty cents an hour; quality or not. Most folks think dollars and cents above quality and performance. I come from the school that says " you get what you paid for!" gary [/QUOTE]
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