Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Summicron 50 mm question
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:26:20 -0500

At 06:31 AM 1/28/98 -0500, Lucien wrote:
>BTW the front lens of the collapsible 50 is also much more prone to scratch
>than the following 50's.

I'm not sure this is the case.  It is more likely that the soft coatings
used by Leitz until the Zeiss patent expired in 1956 or 1957 rendered the
coatings more subject to degradation and abrasion.

Marc


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