Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/02

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Subject: [Leica] New Summarit lenses
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Thu Aug 2 17:21:09 2007
References: <380-22007842232612338@M2W023.mail2web.com> <000a01c7d562$0d9442c0$6601a8c0@asus930>

I bet they just use the existing F2 lens design and make the aperture 
opening not as big and the glass thinner or something :-)

Sort of like in chip manufacturing, the 3 GHz and and 1.5 Ghz and 
everything in between are from the same wafers. If the chip passes 
the 3 Ghz tests, then it's a 3 Ghz chip :-)

At 05:05 PM 8/2/2007, G Hopkinson wrote:
>Wow, a fascinating development. No doubt we shall be hearing more 
>about them. If they are new optical computations, that is a huge
>commitment by Leica. A very welcome sign, I think.
>
>Cheers
>Hoppy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Subject: RE: [Leica] New Summarit lenses
>
>
> > http://www.photoscala.de/node/3422
>
>They're making a big thing of the 'Made in Germany' markings so I wouldn't
>be surprised if the optical units were made by Panasonic and then shipped
>to Germany for final assembly.  These all look like they're delightfully
>tiny lenses!
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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