Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Khong wrote: >priced lens. His lens offered for sale was even more attractive. With a >serial number of #352xxxx, this lens is of latter vintage and that means it >is multicoated as well. This is better than my ex-lens which is not likely >to be multicoated since its S/N is under #32*****. If I am not mistaken (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I am), the Summilux 35 was one of the very first production 35mm format lenses anywhere to be multicoated, and it arrived with the multicoating right from day one. It's not multicoated with the number of layers that the SMC Pentax lenses made famous, but it has multiple coating layers. During production the lens probably experienced modifications in its coatings, and maybe the later ones were better, but I remember seeing the Summilux for the first time around 1960 or 61 and wondering about the different color coatings. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com