Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh in mid-2009 I was shown a pile of probably 2-3 cubic metres of boxes of blanks from Ohara and they told me also Schott, plus I think Corning and Hoya. Some very specialised types are apparently very difficult to obtain currently as anyone queued for the SUMMILUX 50 ASPH may have noticed (that and a doubling of demand following the introduction of the M9) Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 14 October 2010 17:52, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax > > Of interest and significance is that they are owned by Hoya, who at > least for a while (and may still be*) were supplying Leica with some > lens blanks for M lenses. > > Marty > > *A very good strategy for becoming deeply unpopular is to go on a > Leica factory tour and start asking where everything comes from. ?"Who > supplies your brass / glass / coating raw materials etc". ?I think I > almost got booted out. > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:47 PM, ?<afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: >>> Alastair, Pentax is Japanese and it was the first SLR I bought when I got >>> into photography in a serious way in 1985. It was called Super Program in >>> the US (where I lived at the time) or Super A elsewhere. I later moved up >>> to a Pentax LX, a wonderful piece of kit, built like a tank but from >>> memory not nearly as big or heavy as today's pro DSLRs. I only sold in >>> Brussels in the late 1990s, to partly finance the newly discovered Leica >>> M >>> system I was getting into at the time. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >> >> I now remember Asahi Pentax as well. When I first got an SLR it was >> "spotmatic" but I fell for the Minolta SRT 101 with its f1.2 55mm lens: >> looked really "sexy" in the ad. Ended up with the f1.4, but loved the 101 >> >> Cheers >> >> Alastair >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >