"But we have to face the facts. In the first months of the pandemic, the global market declined *significantly and irreversibly*. And *companies have to adapt.*"
Cosina has released around 30 manual focus lenses since early 2020, in six different mounts. Most of them appeared in the period 2021 to 2023. Cosina helpfully gives their release dates:
thrice wrote:
Are they publically traded? Because that statement to dpreview reads a lot like a panicked business not wanting their share price to drop.
They are not a public company, but owned by Zeiss Group. Only one Zeiss group subsidiary is public (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG)
Zeiss Group is owned by the Carl-Zeiss-Siftung foundation, which was setup when Ernst Abbe found he could not donate his shares of Zeiss and the Jena Glassworks to the University of Jena in his will. All three of the owners of the two firms (Abbe, Carl Zeiss's son & heir and Roderich Schott who co-owned the Glassworks) donated their shares to the Foundation.
