Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT re the N****n 135 3.5 LTM
From: "Gerd Heuser" <dr.heuser@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:45:52 +0200

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.
>

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