Re: To filter or not to filter / whose glass is it anyway?

[fred@csgi.com (Fred N. Ward)]

To Tom Hodge and all..... 
 
re: the comments on who owns what and how the Japanese companies are linked
  

The earliest Nikon cameras that were sold in Asia and then some that reached
the USA had the Mitsubishi 3-diamond logo on the top by the name "Nikon."  
That came off rather fast.  When I was working in Japan once I asked the
Nikon exec with me about the Mitsubishi ownership, and there was the usual
hissing-sucking air intake common when the question is embarrassing.  Several
people in Japan have told me that the ownership (or control) is still there,
just never mentioned.  Since most camera companies are small when compared to
Japan's giants, this is not unexpected.   The way Japan interlocks
everything, I have always thought there is really only one company there
anyway. 

Fred

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Replied: 22 Feb 96 09:33