Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 06-07-1998 00:21 Eric Welch wrote: > >>ps... taking photographs with a 15mm Super Elmar is a unique experience. >>How did they make such a magnificant lens? 15mm focal length, rectalinear, > >They hired Zeiss. :-) >-- Can you believe it, but at the Leica "open door days" in Belgium, when I enquired about this lens and tried it on the R8, the Belgian importer rep told me this lens was not a Zeiss design or made by Zeiss... Of course, I knew this was nonsense, but I thought it better to keep my mouth shut not to embarrass him too much :-) Speaking of the power of the web... Pascal - -------------------------------------------------------- Check out: http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ - -------------------------------------------------------- Macintosh PowerBook G3 - it eats Pentium notebooks for lunch - -------------------------------------------------------- <<< PGP public key available on request >>>