Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/11

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: M3 and Wide Angle
From: Daniel Cardish <dcardish@spherenet.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:12:02 -0400

At 07:00 AM 11/9/96 -0400, you wrote:
>At 06:20 PM 9/10/96 -0700, Stephen Gandy wrote:
>
>>Also the latest Summicrons are marginally sharper than the earlier ones.
>
>Hmm.  Not certain this is true.  In any event, the first, eight-element,
>lens is probably a happier lens for use on colour slides and is an all-round
>fine performer.  When Leica reduced the number of elements to lower
>production costs, the compromise was a marginal reduction in quality.

Do you have any evidence to substantiate this?
>


Dan Cardish  
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