Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/02

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Subject: Re: Vs: [Leica] Re: Meaning of Angulon, Summicron, Summaron, Summitar, Summa...
From: Krechtz@aol.com
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:40:04 EDT

In a message dated 9/2/00 5:27:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
summarex@yahoo.com writes:

<< Noctilux F1.2 or better >>

More Latin.  Having already used "Summilux" for its f/1.4 lenses ("highest 
light"), Leitz had to come up with something really exotic for lenses that 
were even faster.  Literally translated, Noctilux would mean "night light", 
not idiomatically very useful in English, but you get the idea.

Joe Sobel

Replies: Reply from Jesse Hellman <palio@miata.net> (Re: Vs: [Leica] Re: Meaning of Angulon, Summicron, Summaron, Summitar, Summa...)