Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 7:04 PM +0200 8/18/00, Raimo Korhonen wrote: >Do you believe in all legends? Multicoating was definitely jointly >productionised by Zeiss and Pentax and an unknown American company called >Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. - after some years Leitz obtained a >licence. The idea itself is about 100 years old. >All the best! >Raimo >photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen As Erwin wrote, Leica started coating some lenses with up to 3 layers in 1957. One of the first lenses to have this 'multi' layer coating was the 35/1.4 Summilux. In the Pentax PR way of thinking, this was not 'multi-coating' and especially not 'Super Multi-Coating'. Various companies, definitely including the American company mentioned and Zeiss were working on multi-layer coatings, but just as definitely Leica had multi-layer coatings in production before Pentax did. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com