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Subject: Vs: [Leica] apo definitions
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:12:09 +0100

Originally achromats were corrected only for two wavelengths - but I do not know what a super-achromat might be.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 01. maaliskuuta 2000 19:31
Aihe: Re: [Leica] apo definitions


>Erwin Puts wrote:
>><Snip> They should have added; " and so are
>> most if not all of the consumer photographic lenses". But then Nikon
>> has photographic lenses  with the designation 'APO" and no enlarging
>> lenses with that sticker?
>> 
>> Erwin
>
>Having recently run into the use of the tern Tele-SuperAchromat in the
>Hasselblad literature I was under the impression they were telling me it was
>even better corrected 4 colors instead of 3?!.
>Four colors?! RGB and black!?:)
>Which four colors they might be talking about never ceases to amuse me CMYB?!:)
>That's an APO of a different color!
>I'm sure it's more than hype. 
>Mark Rabiner
>