Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/06
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At 01:10 PM 6/10/96 -0700, you wrote:
>At 12:23 PM 10/6/96 -0600, George Huczek wrote:
>>About a week ago someone posted a message wondering if anyone
>>knew if there was any difference between the first and current
>>versions of the 35mm aspheric lens.
>> There has been no reply to this. Further to this though, does
>> anyone know why the lens design was changed from two aspheric
>> surfaces to one?
>
>The aspheric surfaces were ground and as such very expensive (labor
>intensive). The new version molds, by way of recent technology, the aspheric
>element directly.
>
>The only comparisons that I've heard are only subjective, at best, but they
>are that the images from each would be virtually impossible to differentiate.
>
>My piggy bank is dedicated to that baby. How soon, I don't know. Right now,
>Tamarkin is selling the new one at $2395 new! Don't know whether it's with
>full Passport or not.
>--
My first version aspherical was with Full Passport - since I was on a
waiting list to get it, I'm not sure what Laica would have done if they had
to replace mine.
Dan Cardish <dcardish@spherenet.com>
<http://www.spherenet.com/dcardish/photo.htm>