Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>If you need to know something, search the archives first and impress >everyone with your new found knowledge and cleverness. The easy to use >search site is located at: so, i searched these sites yesterday about the names summicron, summilux, elmar, etc. the FAQs tell me what these names *mean*, but not their origins, which was my query. are these just made-up words, like KODAK, or do they actually have etymologies? - --bradford, whose name is from the old norse "broad fjord," or something like that. - -- brad daly bwdaly@hiwaay.net photographs: http://home.hiwaay.net/~bwdaly "I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time." --Alvin Straight "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg