Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Field of curvature good or bad?????
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:30:09 -0600

At 11:24 PM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:

>This is an excuse - not a reason.  They would have made it flat if they could
>have, keeping all other aspects the same.  

It's impossible to make this lens flat field. Two lens elements preclude
that. So marketing takes advantage of the special "feature." Just like
Microsquash talks about bugs like they're features in Windows95.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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