Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Glass is "My Term", his comment was that there was no difference in the optical quality between the R and the M, They are the same. So you make out of it what you want. BTW it was my understand that Leica made their own glass. Cheers Wilber - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 7:14 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: 50 mm f/1.4 > At 05:39 PM 1/30/01 -0500, Wilber Jeffcoat wrote: > >Spoke with Leica rep this past summer. His comment was that there is "No" > >difference between M and R glass. Said that is straight from Germany. This > >should start world war three. > >Cheers Wilber > > The "glass" is the same. From either Hoya or Schott. Right out of the glass > catalogs. It's the lens formula, aspherics or not, retrofocus design (R) or > not, manufacturing control, etc. that separate the men from the boys. > > Several stellar new R lenses. 19, 28, 50/1.4, 100 APO, 180 APO, 280 APO, etc. > > Several stellar new M lenses. 21 ASPH, 24 ASPH, 35 ASPH, 90 APO ASPH, 135 APO. > > Jim