European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lan optical works. Good eyesight dexterity or a must for specialists assembling Lens components. Assembly of Lens Lemens it Tricky Fob employees of a bustling optical factory in the picturesque Germa City of bad Kreuz Nach May not know it but they could  lending a hand i Uncle Sam s Moon space program. They Are part of an Assembly Lin team putting together lenses for Little Box cameras As Well As highly technical ones being delivered for use in the Surveyor spacecraft. The 50-year-old Schneider optical works specializing in camera lenses famed in world photography circles turns out More than 300 models at the rate of 1,000 Day. The a Notar 150mm Model bring produced for possible use in the Survey or Are to  mounted in Banks of ninety take photos after the weird looking Craft with a foot tripod legs settles on the Moon s surface. The Craft will relay television pictures to Earth perform chemical analysis on the surface and subsurface it also contains a claw on an extendable Arm to pick up objects As far As 10 feet away. Rangers 7 and 8 both sent Back thou Sands of pictures before crashing on the Moon surface but the surveyors arc designed to make soft Throe Point land Ings at 10 Miles per hour to find out what the Moon looks and feels like. Scorn arc scheduled to  launched before the attempted Landing of a Man on the min sonic time in 1970.the optical or Glass part of a Lens is Tho key to any top Milch camera the Metal body control run is or shades Cun stand a Little scratch on the paint Anil still function perfectly hut not the Lens. From the time it arrives at the fac tory in the form of a rough chunk of Glass until it leaves in a velvet lined by Ralph Bennington staff writer Box utmost care is taken to insure it Quality and perfection. Countless inspections and tests remade by specialists virtually every time a Lens changes hands. Rejection average about 10 per cent. The first operation is phasing of the pieces of Plain looking Glass followed by grinding and polishing. The curvature of the Lens during grinding and polishing is checked for accuracy to one ten thousandths of a millimetre and in any measure that s getting Down to tiny  tails. Polishing alone lakes from one to fou hours the finished Lens averages 35 hours in , focusing rings mounts etc., also go through a Long and tedious As Sembly process. Lenses vary in size from the Small est 8mm movie Type about half an Inch in diameter up to the big to jobs of about four inches across. One of the most popular today is the talc Var Logon zoom80 to 240mmlens for 35mm cameras Selling for around1300. It is sought mainly by professional photographers amateurs would Likely find it expensive and confusing. Tiikii1- is Niobe than one secret for Mula used Liy Schneider in develop ing pried Cimra lenses inn the mom closely tit Kirtlry in Hie Blum it i4. A i ?.e Coaling on the runt element the i Ore s is enormously comply Teil Mill tilt details not available would prob ably lie conf Sim 10 anyone Short of scientist. Electronic brains play to major  years ago it took u Larue staff just to figure out problems of Light ratios air space Between Lens elements h ims the stars and stripes and so Forth. Today two Large computers do the Job. In 1904, Joseph Schneider returned this native Bud Kreuz Nach from the United states and launched the firm. Is grandson and present head of the firm Hans Joseph Schneider Suys they suy Tho first Lens to eve made was fashioned from the. Bottom of a Beer bottle  brought Back from the United  the joke refers to the fact that Joseph Schneider under pressure of prohibition sold his brewery in Spring Field Ohio and with his three Brothers returned to Germany each with 1100,-000 in Gold dollars. Oddly enough the Busch family which awns the fumed Anheuser Busch brewery of St. Louis also came fro bad Kreuz Zynch and the two families were neighbors. Hans Joseph Schneider the 38-year-old third generation head of the firm is insistent about maintaining the world wide reputation of Schneider Lens. The firm produces lenses for quite a number of camera firms under contract and 70 per cent of production is  i1 a. Switzerland Italy Ami Japan Are Tho four lieu us handlers buts uni Ider Shin to u2 countries in All. One is More Likely to spot the Nameon tin it its the m the name Schneider. The in in claims that whoever uses  in any part of the world Kii is that Hie truly names of xenon a Nar a Notar. It Dinnar. A Leonoir. An Kulon. Super an Ulon Tele Mcnar. Tele Arton. Sammur comp Onar. Compono and Varl Okon Are symbols of  Page 13