Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:31 AM 9/12/99 -0700, Art Sala wrote: >Of the lens manufacturers who include aspherical lens elements in their >lens design, who uses plastic and who uses glass? Leica...plastic or >glass? Canon? Nikon? Zeiss? Canon uses three types. Glass, plastic and glass/plastic hybrid. It doesn't matter which. Plastic can work as well as glass. It just depends on how creative the designer is. Plastics are not as simple as they used to be. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I don't get no respect. I called a suicide prevention line and they tried to talk me into it. -- Rodney Dangerfield