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

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Subject: [Leica] New Summarit lenses
From: tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)
Date: Thu Aug 2 21:48:47 2007
References: <380-22007842232612338@M2W023.mail2web.com> <000a01c7d562$0d9442c0$6601a8c0@asus930> <200708030032.l730WKiZ092604@dragonsgate2.imagecraft.com>
 
Isn't that essentially  what Erwin said they did with the 40mm 2.4  
Summarit for the Minilux?  It performs well because wide open, its  
already a half stop down, if that's not an oxy-moron phrase!

Tom

On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Richard wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
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