Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Distortion
From: Steve Hickel <smhickel@x2.alliance.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:25:47 -0500

Damian,

I am with you. I thought I missed a message that explained it all.

Steve

At 08:07 PM 2/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I have been trying to follow this thread hoping that ultimately I will be
>educated as to what is and what is not a retro focus lens.  Beleive me, I
>have tried to educate myself on this question and I can find no references
>which begin with some sort of definition of terms i.e., what is a retro
>focus lens.  If not the physics, perhaps a rundown of lenses which are
>retro focus and a few which are not.  
>
>I'm similarly mystified by Dick Gilcreasts references to 'curved field
>lenses" vis-a-vis "flat field lenses" in his current article in the
>Viewfinder on the 35mm f3.5 Elmar.  Is this topic somehow related to
>retrofocus lens design?
>
>Sorry to hold the class back, but I'm lost.
>
>
>Yrs 
>Damian
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