Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:00 PM 6/5/98 EDT, Marvin Moss wrote: > Finally "Elmar" is a name derived from Ernst Leitz & Max Berak. > I hate to dissent from Marvin, since he, after all, back when he was middle-aged, used to quaff an occasional brew with Oscar Barnack, and who can argue with the veritable source himself? But the ELMAX name, the first lens name adopted by Leica after the Zeiss patent on the Tessar had expired (this expiration allowing Leica to call their lens whatever they wished) was a contraction of "Ernst Leitz Max Berek". The ELMAR followed a few years later, being a slight reformulation: to my knowledge, it is just a gentle re-naming of ELMAX. And then there are the Hektor and the Summarex, named after the dogs of that cigar-fiend, Max Berek. It is hard to think poorly of an optical scientist who would name his lenses after his pets. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!