Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Lens Designs
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:19:24 -0500
 
At 01:46 PM 1999-01-11 -0800, you wrote:
>
>According to my literature from Zeiss they indicate that the Zeiss Biotar of
>1911
>was indeed a high-speed modification of the Petzval-lens.  Could this be
>wrong?

Apparently:  the designs aren't that much akin.  See Kingslake!

Best wishes,

Marc

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