Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mr. Zeitlin: The reasons set forth in the Leica Lenses booklet are entirely consistent with the conclusions hypothesized by Geoffrey Crawley that I referred to recently, namely that Leitz had decided to follow the Japanese in going for higher contrast, believing that they were "following the market." Remember too that the lens cross-sections published by Leitz and Leica since forever are not the true cross-sections of their lenses, something I pointed out to Jim Lager when I first saw his lens book. LaK 9