Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, From the few litterature sources that I have, it seems that Leica does not produce any glass, though it has used a very small scale in-house production unit in the past, mostly for tests. Nothing in thoses sources ever stipulates that the glass supplied to Leica by makers such as Schott and others (Hoya's name usually pops up here) is glass made to order for Leica alone. I would suppose that Leica buys glass using specifications that are in the current catalogue of the maker... You can catch on an earlier LUG thread on the matter through: http://lq.corenetworks.com/lq/view.cgi?o=0&s=1&b=1&q=hoya+AND+glass&sp=&mid=40261&ln=leicausers Alan Jim Brick wrote: > > I'm under the impression that Leica formulates, mixes, melts, and makes > almost all of their own glass. They farm out what they do not have capacity > for. > > Jim > > At 04:13 PM 12/15/98 -0800, you wrote: > >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! > >>