Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:01 AM 9/4/02 -0400, Dante Stella wrote: > >Is Leica now claiming credit for the (Schneider) Xenon? Dante There WAS a Leitz Xenon, the result of a coõperative effort between Leitz, Schneider, and Taylor, Taylor, Hobson. The Leitz 1.5/5cm Xenon was their (rather inadequate) response to that epic design, the 1.5/5cm Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar. After the Second World War, the design was tweaked very mildly and coated, and thus came the 1.5/5cm Summarit. It was tweaked again, marginally, to produce that rara avis, the first version of the 1.4/50 Summilux, a lens I have never seen in the flesh. JSK ALSO produced their own 1.5/5cm Xenon in LTM during this era, to the permanent confusion of the gear-heads in our midst. Marc msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html