Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The story I heard is that they will make certain critical elements on their more optically demanding super wide or fast lenses and have the rest of the elements made by the local glass factory. Apparantly, in any lens design some elements make or break the lens while others can be all over the place in terms of shape and glass variations without much appreciable difference. I'm not sure which elements are critical though, but I'de love to find out. (Maybe the rear ones) Javier Mark Kronquist wrote: > > According to the Leitz lenses brochure and many other sources Leitz bought > glass from leading producers to meet the majority of their needs but > INVENTED AND USED IN PRODUCTON melts from their lab when they needed a > special glass. A factory? No but the Summitar*, radioactive Summicron and > other lenses were made with Leitz made glass... > > THOUGH Ill bet no one on this list could tell the difference between an > image created with a CL and a Summicron or M Rokkor 40mm lens > > (not to mention a 90 Elmar C and a 90 M rokkor : ) opps that was a secret) > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- http://63.164.201.182/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html