Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just how in the **** would you mount a 1/4 ton lens to an M6 and if you could WHY??? I think the line about differing mounts was said in jest..... - -- Harrison McClary http://www.mcclary.net - ---------- >From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Plastic spastic and Leicas >Date: Thu, Oct 28, 1999, 5:30 AM > > For what wavelengths of light is this million dollar lens designed for? > For what focusing distance? For what apertures? I suspect that if you > managed to mount it to a regular film camera, it would be a relatively poor > performer. Just a guess, though. > > Dan C. > > At 07:02 PM 27-10-99 -0700, Henning J. Wulff wrote (or releyed this message): >> >>Today¥s semiconductor lenses, like the new Zeiss "Starlith" lenses, weigh >>about a quarter ton, cost a million dollar a piece, and resolve stunning >>5,000 line pairs per millimeter (yes, five thousand, not five hundred). >>They are so far not available with mount for Alpa or Contax or Hasselblad >>or Rolleiflex, rather they are built into wafer stepper machines by ASML of >>Veldhoven, Netherlands, one of the leading providers of semiconductor >>manufacturing equipment.