Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Regular production coating commenced at Leitz in '46; some lenses, but not many, might have been coated before to meet a given contract's requirements. Leitz freely offered an inexpensive service to coat older lenses after the War, which complicates the issue immensely, as no records survived the mid-80's cleaning-out with the move to Solms indicating which lenses were so treated. Of course, Leitz did not seem to use the protrected Zeiss vacuum-coating system until the later 1950's, at a date and serial number I am still essaying to establish. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!