Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:36 PM 7/29/99 EDT, TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote: >Lets not forget that Leica also uses Hoya glass in their lenses. To be surgically precise, Hoya supplies a few lens blanks for some of the R line: the most, by far, of Leica's optical glass comes directly from the Schott works in Mainz. And the Hoya blanks have to meet Schott specifications. Due to the happy relationship -- called Payment of Licencing Fees! -- between Hoya and Schott, Hoya is the only foreign glass supplier capable of meeting this requirement. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!