German lens manufacturer MEYER OPTIK admits that it copied China ZhongYi lens products

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

German lens manufacturer MEYER OPTIK admits that it copied China ZhongYi lens products
2019-03-08 12:02:15
https://www.toutiao.com/a6665865418327982599/

MEYER OPTIK is a German old-fashioned lens manufacturer. It was founded in 1896. In the 1920s, it began to cooperate with Zeiss to develop into one of the most well-known German lens manufacturers. Its lens products are considered by many professional photographers to be excellent workmanship. Representative of Made in Germany.

But in early March, Meyer admited a very face-breaking fact - its widely acclaimed Nocturnus 50mm F0.95 lens plagiarized the optical master of the Chinese lens manufacturer ZhongYi Speedmaster 50mm F0.95.

ZhongYi Optics is located in Shenyang, the full name of Shenyang ZhongYi Optical Electronics Co., Ltd., was established in 1984. It was originally a Sino-Japanese joint venture Shenyang Meidekang Co., Ltd., and now its main products are projector lenses and camera lenses, which are relatively strong among domestic lens manufacturers. One, Speedmaster 50mm F0.95 was launched in 2014.

In fact, as early as 2015, some users found that the Meyer Nocturnus 50mm F0.95, which costs $3,000, is similar to the ZhongYi Speedmaster 50mm f / 0.95 lens, which is priced at $849, and asked me if Meyer was in the lens design. The latter is used as a reference.

At the time, the user received a response that was “no”, but photographer Ori Cohen later discovered that the optical structure and specifications of the two lenses were the same, and pointed out that the two generations of the Nocturnus 50mm F0.95 lens are all improved on the basis of the lens of China ZhongYi.

The picture above shows the optical structure of the ZhongYi optical lens. The figure below shows the optical structure of the Meyer lens.

A few years later, Meyer once again faced this problem after undergoing a shareholding change. The new parent company OPC Optics said after investigation that the Nocturnus 50mm F0.95 lens is indeed not "Made in Germany" and found another The lens series Somnium is a "retrofit" of a Russian brand lens. Also, OPC Optics decided to take the two series of lenses off the shelf.

ZhongYi lens and two generations of Meyer 50mm F0.95 lens parameters

Meyer's parent company, OPC Optic, took over Mayer at the end of 2018. In April last year, Meyer’s former parent company net SE was delisted from the German exchange, and the CEO of net SE died in a car accident in the middle of the year.

“It’s absolutely not good,” said Timo Heinze, Managing Director of OPC Optics. “It’s a shameful fact as a German manufacturer using the 'Made in Germany' quality mark. These lenses may be very good in themselves, but they are made and marketed. The way violates all our principles."

Timo Heinze added that in the future, Meyer may redesign the 50mm F0.95 lens, but it will never let the plagiarism happen again.

All along, China's optical lens manufacturing industry is considered to be unable to keep up with the Japanese and German. Although several lens manufacturers have introduced many excellent lens products in recent years, in the inherent conception of the people, the foreign moon is always round. Bright, this time Meyer revealed his own shortness, and let the market re-understand the strength of China's manufacturing. Maybe one day in the future, China's lens will stand proudly on the world!


德国老牌镜头厂商承认抄袭中国镜头产品
原创 闻声识影 2019-03-08 12:02:15
梅耶（MEYER OPTIK）是德国老牌镜头生产商，1896年成立，在1920年代开始和蔡司合作逐步发展成最知名的德国镜头厂商之一，其镜头产品被很多职业摄影师认为做工优良，是“德国制造”的代表。

但3月初，梅耶却被迫承认了一个很打脸的事实——其曾受到广泛赞誉的Nocturnus 50mm F0.95镜头抄袭了我国镜头厂商中一光学的Speedmaster 50mm F0.95。

中一光学在沈阳，全称是沈阳中一光学电子有限公司，成立于1984年，原来是中日合资沈阳美德康公司，现在主要产品有投影仪镜头和照相机镜头，是目前国内镜头厂商中比较有实力的一个，Speedmaster 50mm F0.95上市于2014年。

其实，早在2015年，就有用户发现，售价3000美元的梅耶Nocturnus 50mm F0.95与售价849美元的中一Speedmaster 50mm f / 0.95镜头相似，并在当时就此询问梅耶是否在镜头设计时以后者作为参考。

当时，用户得到的答复却是“没有”，不过不久摄影师Ori Cohen便进一步发现两个镜头的光学结构和规格是一样的，并指出Nocturnus 50mm F0.95的两代镜头都是在中一镜头基础上改良的。

上图是中一光学镜头光学结构图，下图是梅耶镜头光学结构图

几年后，梅耶在经历了股权变更后，再一次直面了这个问题，其新的母公司OPC Optics在调查后表示，Nocturnus 50mm F0.95镜头确实并非“德国制造”，并且还发现另一个镜头系列Somnium是一款俄罗斯品牌镜头的“改装款”。并且，OPC Optics决定下架这两个系列镜头。

中一镜头和两代梅耶50mm F0.95镜头参数

梅耶现在母公司OPC Optic是在2018年底接手梅耶的。去年4月，梅耶前母公司net SE从德国的交易所退市，net SE的CEO也在年中发生车祸后去世。

“这绝对不行。”OPC Optics常务董事Timo Heinze表示：“作为使用'德国制造'质量标志的德国制造商，这是一个可耻的事实。这些镜头本身可能非常好，但是它们的制作方法和市场营销方式违背了我们所有的原则。”

Timo Heinze还补充到，未来梅耶可能会重新设计制作50mm F0.95镜头，但绝对不会让抄袭的事情再发生。

一直以来，中国的光学镜头制造业都被认为实力赶不上日德，虽然这几年有几家镜头厂商推出了不少优秀的镜头产品，但在人们的固有观念里，国外的月亮总是圆的亮的，这次梅耶自己揭短，也让市场重新认识了中国制造的实力，没准到未来的哪一天，中国的镜头将傲立于全球！

 

[Place Of Space]

How to pay the lost?

 

[oprih]

White people needs to stop stealing other's works and for once learn to make something on their own.

 

[TaiShang]

White people needs to stop stealing other's works and for once learn to make something on their own.

ZhongYi should at least be able to protect itself from US stealing.

 

[Globenim]

Zhongyi optics is a Chinese Japanese joint venture that does not only distribute budget lenses under brand names like Mikaton or Zongyi but also operates on a OEM model for companies like Meyer. Meyer distributes their lenses under their German brand name. The only people that got stolen from where the customer who where told this model was a German product and asked them for "Made in Germany" prices. They later tried to make that less apparent by shifting it to assembly in Germany and changing the exterior creating a defacto "copy". "Plagiarism" can also mean passing something from someone else as your own, even if that "someone else" agreed and was paid for it.

The American author who wrote the original article that got copied here conveniently omitted that and profoundly plays with words.

 

[Jlaw]

Zhongyi optics is a Chinese Japanese joint venture that does not only distribute budget lenses under brand names like Mikaton or Zongyi but also operates on a OEM model for companies like Meyer. Meyer distributes their lenses under their German brand name. The only people that got stolen from where the customer who where told this model was a German product and asked them for "Made in Germany" prices. They later tried to make that less apparent by shifting it to assembly in Germany and changing the exterior creating a defacto "copy". "Plagiarism" can also mean passing something from someone else as your own, even if that "someone else" agreed and was paid for it.

The American author who wrote the original article that got copied here conveniently omitted that and profoundly plays with words.

That's why there's no lawsuit

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

In the eyes of Westerners, Chinese technology must be stolen (China pays so many patent fees every year, but Westerners can’t see it, Huawei’s invention patents are known to Westerners, but they are not willing to admit it),

Western espionage and theft behaviors is considered to "maintain and monitor world peace"! (The Edward Snowden incident shows that the West particularly US yankee has never stopped mass espionage.)

The US FBI, CIA, and NSA have made it clear that the yankee United States will continue to monitor countries around the world (including its allies) by various espionage methods.