Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: > > Leica uses glass in its ASPH lenses. They *may* use plastic in their ><Snip> stic elements. > > And I am not sure if it is fair to call them 'plastic elements'. They are > a thin aspherically molded plastic resin element attached to a glass element. > > Dan C. > ><Snip> I think when the guy comes up to Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" and puts his hand on his shoulder and says "Plastics!" he should have said "resin." I don't know what I would do without the stuff. Is it from pine trees. My darkroom sink does not leak and it's been 6 years. It coats it and keeps it together! Mark Rabiner