Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:32 PM 12/14/96 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote: >I think that Leitz (Leica) never was in the habit of giving names to lenses >that matched their optical design, unlike Zeiss. Well, certainly not since Max Berek passed on. As long as he was alive, even minor variations (Elmax to Elmar) were renamed. After he died in '49, the marketing pros (such as Leitz ever had) took over, and a successful name was retained despite redesignings. For the M, the last new names were the Elmarit and Noctilux: for thirty years and more, we've had a countless succession of Summicrons, Summiluxes, and Elmarits which are totally distinct in formulation. Even the 'Summarit' on that P&S they make now isn't a REAL Summarit (a Xenon derivative). Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!