[Leica] Early 35 'cron

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (Bob Palmieri)]

Folks -

When I was up in Rochester in the 70's I studied "Modern Camera Design" 
(as they called the course) with a heavy guy from Kodak named Rudolph 
Kingslake. I recall that he was quite enamored of that 8 element 35 
'cron.  In fact, he wrote the chapter on lenses in the Encyclopedia of 
Photography, and I believe he used more photographic examples from that 
particular lens than any other.

I also recall that the MTF charts seem to indicate that it outperforms 
the 4th gen stopped down, but is considerably worse wide open.

Bob Palmieri