Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"When Dr Ludwig Bertele, arguably the finest optical designer of this century, calculated the original Sonnar, the 2/50 Contax lens, the mathematical scribblings totted up to a total of more than 3 feet in depth. A picture of this stack was much a feature of early Zeiss Ikon advertising for the Contax I." Marc, I want to thank you for this absolutely wonderful piece of trivia. I had always wondered what that pile of paper had to do with the then new Contax camera. Where do you get these stories? After collecting Zeiss Contax for 30 odd years, I never heard such detail. Thank You Frank Filippone red735i@worldnet.att.net