Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:10 PM 1/2/97, Dennis wrote: >Anybody have any idea _how_ they do that? Mold lenses from glass that is. >How can they come out of a mold without needing any polishing, or do they? I have a slew of Docter literature (yes, they have a Zeiss connexion, having purchased the East German Carl Zeiss Jena binocular works at Eisfeld when the Germanies united) and the blank-molding technology seems to be just that: you get an aspherical blank which needs final polishing. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!