Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/05

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Subject: Re: New collapsible Elmar-M, old collapsible Summicron.
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 16:40:52 -0400

At 06:30 PM 5/5/96 +0200, Gerard Captijn wrote:

>It is interesting that Leica was able to improve the Tessar-type design
further
>as the general opinion of the optical community was that the potential of
>the design has been realized.

Gerard

Can you provide a source for this statement?  I believe Zeiss, at any rate,
has felt that new glasses and computational techniques have made the Tessar
capable of quite a bit of further development.

Marc


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