Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I asked Marc that several years ago. Seems his book was only about the >European Non-Leitz Screwmount lenses, but the publisher changed the title >for marketing reasons -- or at least that is how I remember the story. > >Stephen Gandy Mr. Small says in his introduction: "My purpose in writing this work has been simple, to set the circumstances of the manufacture of aftermarket Leica thread-mount lenses. As with many another project, the task grew out of all bounds, as the scope of this soon became unwieldy and, eventually unrealistic to comprehend within one short volume... However, the basic purpose remained and, as there was no work detailing the European lenses which in which my own interests lies, I have so restricted my efforts." (...) "This work does not address Oriental lenses, which I will leave to others whose passions run in that direction... (M)y omission is based purely on my lack of data and not on any failure to acknowledge the generally excellent quality of such optics." It is imho a very interesting little book. Don McClure Abingdon, MD