Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/14

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Subject: Re: Summicron & Genealogy
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@spherenet.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 12:32:47 -0400
 
At 10:25 AM 14-12-96 -0500, Marc wrote:
[snip]
>I hope this straightens things up!  We really have three distinct optical
>designs here, and ought to have had three different lens names.  Leitz/Leica
>confused the issue by carrying over the old name on a new lens (as they did
>on so many other designs as well, though!)

[snip]

I think that Leitz (Leica) never was in the habit of giving names to lenses
that matched their optical design, unlike Zeiss.

Dan C.