Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Which Leitz lens was copied? - ---Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote: > > At 09:08 PM 5/11/98 +0200, Raimo Korhonen wrote: > >If a copy performs "better" than an original it cannot - in your own terms > >- be a copy. "It can be identical, yes, but not superior" - and if it is, > >it is not a copy, then. I do not think that the Gauss formula was invented > >by Zeiss as Carl Friedrich Gauss lived 1777-1855 and certainly he did not > >get any compensation from Nikon. > > > You logic is infallible, but your grasp of the facts is weak. The Nikon > copies of Zeiss lenses and the Canon copies of Zeiss and at least one Leitz > design were exact copies. Even the threading on the internal fitments were > identical to those from the originals. In other words, it isn't just a > bland infringement -- they COPIED the lenses, completely, down to the > internal mechanical construction as well as the precise optical configuration. > > Marc > > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com