Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I recall the '49 Britannica, Taylor Hobson Cooke had the rights in the U.S. (I believe they actually held the patent) and Schneider was the German licensee. Kind of like Bausch & Lomb being the licensee of the Tessar in the U.S. and that designation showing up on a bunch of view camera lenses from before the war. Guy Bennett wrote: > >Marc James Small wrote: > >><Snip> > >> These are unique JSK designs though the 1.5/50 Xenon shares a common > >> lineage with the Leitz Xenon and Summarit. > >><Snip> > >BOTH Leitz and Schneider used the term "Xenon"?! > >mark rabiner > > i believe that the 'leica xenon' was a schneider design that leitz also > sold under their name. > > guy