Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Using old lenses
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:23:29 -0400

Pete

Your basic point is perfectly correct.  Nonetheless, the use of
mathematical calculations at both Zeiss and Leitz in the 1870's was the
first time a manufacturer of such lenses had used such to design production
lenses.  Petzval and Wollaston operated on their own and looked to others
to produce their designs.

Marc

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