Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 1st version expensive 35mm Summilux vs latest
From: Lucian Chis <chis@ece.orst.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 12:55:30 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Henning J. Wulff wrote:

> The points made were that some Zeiss engineers had shown to their
> satisfaction that more than one aspherical surface per lens was
> superfluous.
> 
> The glass in the new one is not softer (on the verrry remote chance that
> you were serious....). As far as the performance is concerned, all in all
> they are nearly equal, with the new one having a slight edge in some aspect
> (I forget which). 

PRICE!!!!!!!

Lucian

In any case, not to worrry about.


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