Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Terminology and the 2.8/135 Elmarit
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:58:02 -0500

At 10:23 PM 1999-03-15 -0800, Mark Rabiner queried:
>What did they have against them?


Leitz had a minuscule optical design department well into the 1960's.  It
is much easier to design a quality long-focus lens than a quality
telephoto, so Leitz went with what they could comfortably design and
produce.  

Marc

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