Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] Nope...
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:54:01 +0000

>>>ASPH lens are much better that is true, but the nature of the animal
is that
is primarily true on the longer lens.  The longer the lens the more
spread
you get in the visual spectrum of light where as asph and flourite lens
tend
to make them come to focus at the same point.  Love them all, especially
the
!00mm.<<<

Clifton,
This is confused. You don't mean ASPH, you mean "APO," shorthand for
apochromatic correction, whether effected by fluorite elements,
extra-low-dispersion glass elements, and / or extraordinary partial
dispersion glass elements. Actually, aspherical elements are most useful
in lenses of a wide to moderate angle of view, to prevent spherical
distortion at the widest apertures.

- --Mike