Hi Mike, --o/t-----------
All I know is that they still exist -- (half a miracle after the wall came down -- the relation between Oberkochen (Carl Zeiss in the West) and Jena was not so fantastic -- it all became a cold war affair between those two).
However, we also used Jena tools in those days, distributed by Jenoptik (iirc).
For the moment there's a kind of cooperation (joint venture ?) with БелОМО from Minsk -- and this one had a less optimal reputation about end control of their products. -- but then the world changed a lot in the meantime ... (I think it already was a satelite from LOMO in (then) Leningrad ). I also do think Jena works together with LZOS now (http://lzos.ru/index.php).
But Meyer Feinoptik in Görlitz (on the Polish border) is gone. (well, Arsenal in Kiev is exit , FED is exit , SVEMA gone etc.. (as for analogue photography then)).
best Rob
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