Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But here you have to differentiate. The "genetic material" was not ripped off, but Leitz and Schneider shared knowledge in a close coworking. An additional member of that coworking since WWII was the university of Francfort contributing methods of glass melting and - even more important - cooling down stressless. Gerd > the Zeiss f/4 Sonnar but rather was developed on its own course from a > Zeiss-derived design. In a similar way the current 50 Summilux shares > genetic material with the old Schneider 50 f/1.5 Xenon. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html