Re: [Leica] 50mm Optical Question

[budcook@ibm.net]

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From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, March 29, 1998 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] 50mm Optical Question

>At 10:54 AM 3/29/98 -0600, Bud Cook wrote:
>>Aren't the 90mm SummicronR, 135mm ElmaritR and 180mm ElmaritR modified
>>triplets (as is the Nikon 105 2.5)?   I've read somewhere that these
lenses
>>were modified triplets and they look like Sonnars to me.
>
>
>First, which version of these lenses are you speaking of?  All have been
>redesigned.
>
>Second, Leitz has used the 'modified triplet' as the basis for a number of
>designs, but that doesn't make them 'Sonnars', as this name refers to a
>specific modified-triplet formula.  A parallel would be to say that
>Mercedes ripped off General Motors because they both built "cars".
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
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