Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:02 AM 7/16/97 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote: >"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. Gads. I believe it's on one of the adverts I have. I have stacks of old Zeiss and Zeiss Ikon literature, and Larry Gubas -- archivist for Zeiss Historica -- has barrels and bales of the stuff. Some of it is flummery, some of it is quite informative. Old Leica literature is the same way. Wonderful stuff, when you can get it cheap! Marc Marc James Small Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir! FAX: +540/343-7315