Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16
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Henning J Wulf wrote:
>>If I am not mistaken (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I am), the Summilux 35
>>was one of the very first production 35mm format lenses anywhere to be
>>multicoated, and it arrived with the multicoating right from day one. It's
>>not multicoated with the number of layers that the SMC Pentax lenses made
>>famous, but it has multiple coating layers.
Marc James Small replied:
>No. The 1.4/35 was single-coated only until the early 1970's.
<snip>
Having had the priviledge of using both the single coated and the
multicoated versons of this fine lens, I am hard pressed to tell the
difference in the pictures that each produced. I suspect that flare
control might be slightly better but what is all the multicoating supposed
to do as well?
Does anyone on the LUG own and used both to throw more light on their
differences?
Dan K.
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