Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitz Anastigmat
From: TEAShea@aol.com
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:17:09 EDT
 
<< and learned that Anastigmat is a trademark by Zeiss. >>

Tom, my understanding is that Anastigmat is a contraction for Anti-
astigmatism.  Someone at Zeiss must have conceived of the idea that it was
significant to purport that the lenses corrected astigmatism.

Tom Shea