[Leica] The slippery slope - "digital"?

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Zounds, a fast 200mm to which even Nikonoids may cleave. 

-Chris Lawson, wondering if the Bokeh King EF200mm f/1.8L will soon crash 
dive from rare and amazing to just plain oboslete. And amazing.

 From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>
> The Japanese optical industry is/has removed lead especially and most other
> heavy(toxic) metals from their optical glass over the last five years or
> so.  The hazards to the workers in the smelters became too apparant to
> tolerate any more.  The Canon folks assured me that as they figured out
> optical glasses that don't use toxic materials they would re-issue a 
> similar
> lens; with the good success of the Nikon 200 F2 you can bet that Canon will
> bring out a revised version fairly soon.
> 
> 0.02
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> 

Chris Lawson, insensitive twit, wrote an offending message, now cleansed of 
odious content. 

> > >  Bonus benefit--the Canon EF 200mm f/1.8L.  A lens like no other and no
> > longer
> > >  manufactured, supposedly because of some glass-formulation chemical
> > process that even
non-North American lens manufacturers who shall remain nameless won't 
tolerate. 

> On 12/23/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:

> > I don't like to see slurs like this. Please be more respectful. You could
> > have made your point just as well by saying "process that no one will
> > tolerate".
>