Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:52 PM 10/6/98 +0200, Pascal wrote: > >During my visit to the Leica factory in Solms last week, we were showed >both R and M lenses production rooms, as well as the M6 manufacturing and >finetuning rooms. > >I asked a couple of questions on lenses, while we were being shown the >production process of aspheric lenses, like why the M series get all the >ASPH treatment, unlike the R series (until the Japanese made zoom >35-70/4.0 -where the aspheric element is not even advertised- and the new >Solms made 35-70/2.8 ASPH). > I asked the same question (I asked for a new 21mm and 24mm lens) at the LUG-Leica-Photokina meeting. Everyone from Leica smiled with the look "they will be along in due time" but also said "remember that the wide angle lenses for the R camera must be a retrofocus design, which is much more difficult to design and manufacture." Jim http://www.photoaccess.com Jim Brick, ASMP, BIAA Photo Access (650) 470-1132 Visual Impressions Publishing Visual Impressions Photography (408) 296-1629