Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/02

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Subject: Re: Barnack, Berek, Zeiss, and Leitz
From: NickDaisly@aol.com
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:29:48 -0400 (EDT)

>Why did Zeiss create lenses that produced
vastly more information than could be recorded on films at that time or
recovered?
Glen Robinson<

Ah!  They must have been trained by aliens!
Erich von Dani-loon {NOT}

But seriously, it seems to me that if the physicists are working towards
getting the best possible quality, then their work will stand up well over
time - the mathematics of perfection doesn't change.  It just so happened
that the chemists took a while to catch up with the quality.

Nick Daisley, Oxford