Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The same sort of production bottleneck they ran into with the first 35 Summilux Aspherical. The glass molding technology only works (for now) for lens elements up to about 25mm in diameter. > Francesco, > > According to Roger Horn, Pres. Leica USA, the lens should not be available > until the end of the 1st qtr. next year. Seems there is a problem with > production of the large ground asph element used in the lens. > Delivery cannot > be scheduled with any certainty until this is worked out. > > Bill Rosauer >