Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, Hoya makes some exceptional glass which it sells to a variety of businesses. I have never had a problem with their filters except one time. Could it be that your local camera store stopped carrying the Hoya filters because the mark up was better on the Tiffen and B+W. ;-) With all due respect even things that are made outside of Germany can still be high quality. After all Tokina, a division of Hoya made lense for Rollei at one time, Sigma makes them for Leica, etc. Hey, I'll take a Lexus over a Mercedes anyday. :-) Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 2:32 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] A LEGITIMATE LEICA QUESTION At 01:54 PM 5/26/99 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: >Hoya now makes a premium line, multicoated, brass threads and so on and >they are the guys who supply Leica with the glass supple enough to be >ASPH'd in many cases so they say here on the lug and who would make a >thing like that up? These guys are no longer cheapo if they ever really were. Hmm. My local camera store quit carrying Hoya because of complaints due to their low quality and then, alas!, went over to Tiffen and not something decent. I believe the glass Leica uses for their ASPH lenses is Schott glass. They do buy Hoya blanks for some of their more mundane R lenses (and <<FLAME ALERT!!>> aren't all R lenses save for the 3.5/15 mundane?), but even, here, these are glass mixtures from the Schott catalogue made under license by Hoya. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!