Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kaching, kaching! Canon being upstaged by Nikon? Unheard of! Slobodan Dimitrov http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Don Dory wrote: > 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 > > > On 12/23/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: >> >> >> > 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 >> > Asians won't tolerate. >> >> 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". >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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