Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:30 PM 3/16/2000 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote: >No!...Marc, you mean the Summarexes and Hextors were named after a >dog?!...So what or who was Elmar, dog, cat, or child? Once the Zeiss patent on the basic Tessar design expired in 1923, Leitz was free to use any name they wished; previously, they had used the "Anastigmat" name as Zeiss insisted. Hence, the lens was then renamed the "Elmax" for 'Ernst Leitz Max' Berek. A redesign two years later caused the lens to be renamed the "Elmar". Not quite as good a tale as that of the naming of the Rollei T, but a bit better documented. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!