Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is very interesting. Generally, well designed computer controlled equipment produces better quality than handmade efforts. For example, the same hold true for computer controlled robotic painting of production automobiles. (Not including here the $20,000 paint jobs for concourse automobiles). Tom Shea << but the Leica company soon found that this time-honoured technique was not good enough for the latest generation of lenses. Now the individual glass elements are moulded to approximate shape at the glass works, then individually ground at Solms on a computer-controlled machine >>