Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> wrote: snip >About women lens designers. I read, a year or so ago, about one of >Schneider's chief lens designers, a woman, who came up through Schneider >from a low level menial job. She was not schooled as an optical engineer, >but learned the trade at Schneider. She is (if I remember correctly) >responsible for the aspheric lenses and the line of HM lenses. My most >prized LF lens is my 120mm Super Symmar HM. Of the loupes that I have, >clearly the best, by a large margin, is the Schneider 6x ASPH. snip Konishiroku (Konica) also had (or still has) a very talented woman lens designer. If my memory serves, she designed a 40 mm lens for the Konica SLR which I heard has a very characteristic design. It appears to me that lens design is something like an art of cooking rather than solving equations, I do respect women's sense/taste in this field. Some women chefs are really great. :-) Leicalement, Mikiro Mori Strasbourg, Europe http://members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html