ZEISS microscope: more than 300 years of history, there is nothing to say.
Olympus microscope: the first market share, the first after-sales service.
Olympus, similar to Zeiss is purely for the optical, and a lot of international standards, and these two companies. For example: the international microscope focusing distance is 45mm, in addition to Nikon (it is about 60), the other three are strictly follow the provisions of this. Olympus has so many new technologies now that even Zeiss doesn't have. Olympus is also number one in the world for endoscopes. Olympus is dedicated to optics, and 70% of the company's revenue comes from optical instruments, and 30% from others, including his digital cameras.
Nikon microscope:
Its optics are not for nothing, but their company's focus is on semiconductors and cameras, just look at the gun barrels held by the reporters on the soccer field, its microscopes are a bit disproportionate to its prices and services. Even now the rack is also built like the Olympus rack "Y" type rack high stability. Their sales strategy in China think is to sell a profit is Olympus sell 3 profit, after all, its market share is far less than that of Olympus, if the price and Olympus the same, that he simply can not be sold, so to open the mouth of the market, you need another strategy. But it seems to have turned around recently. The company makes 70 percent of its profits from semiconductors and cameras.
Leica microscope:
Although it is German (not anymore, due to the company's serious decline in performance, can no longer be operated, and is now acquired by a U.S. company, and will be called the U.S. Leica again), but the low-end products are pretty much assembled in the country, and even the objective lens is made in China.
I hope our Chinese optical microscope technology will soon get a breakthrough!
Guangzhou Mingmei hope to help you!