Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 98-06-05 21:15:00 EDT, Mark wrote: << 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". >> Mark is write of course & I am getting to old to tell my Barnacks from my Bereks - but I will right the introduction to his new book which is tentatively named "Aberrations That I Have Known". ;-) Marvin