Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/22

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica Optical Web site
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:46:30 -0400

At 06:16 PM 7/22/96 -0400, bowtie@mail.abest.com wrote:

>Here is an interesting sidenote:  Originally, Leitz had designed a 40mm F2.8
>lens for the Leica CL.  When Minolta showed up with an 40mm F2 Rokkor - with
>superior quality, Leitz went back to the drawing board and came up with the
>F2 lens - of equal (not superior) quality. 

I would appreciate your posting a source for this, especially as to the
respective "quality" of the lens and the standards by which this "quality"
was determined.

Marc

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