Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] apo definitions
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:30:27 -0800

At 9:28 PM -0800 3/1/00, Ken Iisaka wrote:

>Nikon is still one of few companies which is rather strict about how
>they use certain terms.  Recall that Nikon stubbornly calls its close-up
>lenses, Micro-Nikkors and Ultra-Micro-Nikkors.

They may be strict, but they are on their own here. No one else used
'micro' in in this fashion. Making up your own definitions against common
usage does not count for much. Also, some literature (which of course was
not necessarily written by Nikon) described the M Nikkor series as apo,
which they were only in the broadest sense.

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