Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!