Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roger This is getting fairly silly. Rogliatti's text was simply edited to delete one phrase from the sentence in question, I suspect for space reasons -- it costs money to print books! Please note how closely the remainder of the sentence tracks. I was incorrect on 1949; the date is 1951, hardly a major gaffe and certainly not a major slip in time. The original poster was proposing that the 1961 1.4/35 Summilux-M was not designed with the aid of computers; I think this is not true. I have some private correspondence from Rogliatti which I'll try to dig out (my stepdaughter has returned from college and is job-searching; in the interim, her possessions are everywhere and it is a true fight to get to the file cabinet containing my notes from the Leica Lens books I have in press). I believe he and I discussed this at one point or the other, as well. Keller mentions the use of computers in the second part (I believe) of his History of the 35mm Camera, printed first in Viewfinder some years ago and later redone in book form. Emil's a great guy -- he was a Leica employee who emigrated to the US before the War, got a job with Leitz NY, then ended up in the Army -- and was put in charge of the Leitz plant when we captured it! His account is most fascinating. msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!