Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:19 PM 3/27/06 -0500, Don Dory wrote: >Bill, >This was Leica's first attempt at a 35mm lens. It is adequate at best, >soft, flare prone, curvature of field, astigmatism, coma and probably not >coated unless it was one coated during the war for official use. Or unless it was coated Postwar. Leitz and a lot of other houes offered coating sevices for cheap into the 1960's. The problem is that Leitz used a wete-coating technology until they were afforded access to the Zeiss process in 1960/ The posible upside is that teh lens might well have been coated by Zeiss, Schneiider, or Voigtl?nder, all of wihich offered the proper vacuum-coating technique to deprived owneers of Leitz lenses from 1948 unto the 1960's. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505