Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:12 PM 9/1/1999 +0200, Christian Moreno wrote: > >I´d like to ask for your advice. Actually I have a M6 with the following >lenses: 35 f:1.4 non-ASPH ( I´m not so happy with it at all, it´s serial >number is 328****, I think that is the uncoated one, rigth??), There were no uncoated 1.4/35 Summiluxes ever produced. Virtually every lens produced by Leitz after 1946 was coated. By 1961, when the 1.4/35 Summilux was introduced, every production Leica lens was hard-coated using the Smakula vacuum-deposit process, as the Zeiss patent expired in 1955. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!