Re: [Leica] RE: Thou insulteth Takumar, Sir?

[Bill Carson <poppie@fidalgo.net>]

I would like to contact someone with a Chrome Leica Baseplate  {for a Model
III    A which is 5.2 inches o.a. Length} and also anyone with a Rangefinder
Cover Chrome {the stamping, not the die cast full upper plate}. Would want
parts in close to Mint condition.  Bill Carson

Ken Iisaka wrote:

> Minolta had marketted "achromatic coating" in the late 50's when its first
> SLR, SR-2, was introduced.
>
> It had two-layer coating, and its dark green reflection was quite unique at
> the time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Mike Johnston [mailto:michaeljohnston@ameritech.net]
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 11:13 AM
> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >Subject: [Leica] Thou insulteth Takumar, Sir?
> >Dan, the Takumar in question is a used lens, more than 25 years old. It
> >is well built. It focuses more smoothly than any other lens I have ever
> >used, including any Leica or Zeiss lens. It has spherical surfaces where
> >other 50/1.4's have flat surfaces; it was among the first lenses on the
> >market with multicoating. Pentax beat even Zeiss's first multicoated
> >lens to market. In the late '60s and early '70s both Zeiss and Pentax
> >were working with Optical Coating Laboratories (? I have a poor memory
> >for descriptive names), which invented multicoating for the space
> >program. Every surface is fully multicoated, not often the case on many
> >lenses today. I don't know when Leitz's first multicoated lens came to
> >market, but Nikon's first was the 35mm f/1.4 in I believe 1977, some 5
> >years later.