Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 23:50 1997-01-01 +0800, you wrote: >Recently, > >Is there any truth that SIGMA is manufacturing the lens elements for >this lens? Supposedly only the first batch of 2000 were made by Leica >and thereafter by Sigma. A collector's shop I visited to offers both >versions but the price difference is 3x!!! Is there any truth to >this? > I have no idea who makes them, but I have had two 35/1.4 APSH lens the first was #3659488, which showed coma wide open and I sold it. The one I have now is #3670766 and it is a gem with no coma (used the dreaded "Christmas tree test" for both lens). These lenses are later lenses with the one aspherical surface produced by press forming rather than the early one with two aspherical surfaces formed by grinding and polishing. If the second of my lenses was made by Sigma, fine for them as it is superior to the first one. My impression is they were both made by Leica??? Interesting. Dick Hemingway Norman, OK