Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]SNIP -- Mark Rabiner wrote: > I hope you've got an asbestos spacesuit with a thick fireproof glass > visor because if you are insinuating the existence of plastic elements > in Leica M or otherwise glass you can say goody to your eyebrows. SNIP -- Mark, Hopefully I misread your post. It is fairly common knowledge that the 35mm f/1.4 Aspherical Summilux-M has two ashperically ground glass element surfaces, and the later 35mm f/1.4 ASPH-M has a single aspheric surface of pressed plastic bonded onto one of the glass elements. It is one of the prime reasons that the earlier Aspherical is a collector (and that approximately only 2000 were made). See, the "Viewfinder," Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997)at pages 14-15. I am a user and owner of the later f/1.4 ASPH-M with the bonded plastic element. It is great! (And I am pulling on my asbestos suit.) Best regards and good light tomorrow, Bill Caldwell