Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:05 AM 3/15/96 -0800, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote: >No, it doesn't have a plastic element. It has a single aspherical >element rather than two of the original. The difference is that it is >pressed while hot into the aspherical shape, and needs no polishing >afterwards. That lessens the price significantly. Canon pioneered that >technique, I believe. But Leica claims that because of a new type of >glass used in the current version, the performance of the lens is higher >than the original, slightly. I know I'll own this lens some day. > >-- >Eric Welch >Grants Pass, OR > Quite right, Eric, and I stand corrected. I knew it had some sort of molded element --- don't know where the plastic came from.