Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't believe Leica does its own glass melting. Even companies like Sigma and Pentax buy their glass from outside sources. This is fact. - -----Original Message----- From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 3:06 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Leica glass I was told, by the Leica folks, that all of the glass that they receive from other companies (such as Hoya) is Leica glass, made to the Leica formula, and that the supplier (Hoya) cannot in any way use the Leica glass that they supply to Leica. Leica's glass making capacity is overstressed and they farm out the manufacturing to others. But using the Leica patented formulas. So it all is Leica glass. Just "cooked" in another facility. Jim At 05:39 PM 12/15/98 -0500, you wrote: >At 01:02 PM 1998-12-15 -0800, Peter Kotsinadelis wrote: >>OUt of curiousity, does anyone know if it is Schott that provides the glass >>for Leica lenses? >> > >Yes and no. Hoya provides some glass for a couple of the R lenses. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >