Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Leica is moving towards true multicoating They are not. Multicoating of all surfaces in a uniform manner is a trick from the 60s, including Pentax, and is inferior to what you call "staggered coating" and what Nikon calls NIC (Nikon Integrated Coating) and what Zeiss does with T* coating. Leica, Zeiss and Nikon can't be wrong. (I believe Canon too). Nobody making high performance optics does the "uniform" Multicoating. The coating is part of the overall lens formula. If all were coated the same, that wouldn't be true. Leica does it right now. Why would they go backwards? - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphrey