Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh! So now I know! Thank you for clearing that up for me. Cheers Wilber - ----- Original Message ----- From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 50 mm f/1.4 > At 09:16 PM 1/30/2001 -0500, Margaret Jeffcoat wrote: > >BTW it was my understand that Leica > >made their own glass. > > No, they don't, Wilber. They DESIGN their own glasses when necessary, but > the glass is actually produced elsewhere. In general, Leica has tended to > use stock glasses from the Schott catalogue, some of which are now actually > produced by Hoya. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >