Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do you know what year the multi coating began? Roland Smith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 1.5 Bokeh > At 08:44 AM 5/18/2001 -0500, Dante A. Stella wrote: > >Good point about the curvature. The Canon is a Sonnar copy, but better > >executed than the Soviet copy (and without benefit of the Zeiss tooling!) > > > > That's a pretty broad brush to use to describe a lens which was in > production for 45 years. In general, yes, the mounts on Nikon and Canon > LTM lenses are far better made than those on the Soviet/Post-Soviet lenses. > But there is generally not much to choose between the glass, SPS QC being > its customary concern. However, the late Jupiter production has better > mounts than the earlier lenses and most of these lenses are multi-coated. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >