Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Have you thought that you might be a victim of a good sales pitch. In the past Leica has used the most dubious coatings but the explanations have always been first class. Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen nyt myös Kameralehden juttuja suomeksi - ---------- > From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Re: KINOPTIC lenses > Date: 11. joulukuuta 1998 4:53 > > >Leica is moving towards true multicoating > > They are not. Multicoating of all surfaces in a uniform manner is a trick > from the 60s, including Pentax, and is inferior to what you call "staggered > coating" and what Nikon calls NIC (Nikon Integrated Coating) and what Zeiss > does with T* coating. Leica, Zeiss and Nikon can't be wrong. (I believe > Canon too). Nobody making high performance optics does the "uniform" > Multicoating. The coating is part of the overall lens formula. If all were > coated the same, that wouldn't be true. > > Leica does it right now. Why would they go backwards? > -- > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken > seriously. Hubert Humphrey