Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>'Course with Leitz optics they should be able to count the hair >>follicles in your bald spot from 10,000m at Mach 1. Especially >>for the prices the military probably paid for them! (Apply the >>$500 hammer rule to figure out the military cost of a Summicron :-) > >Actually, Paul, I was told that these lenses could also be used >successfully for spotting purposes at monokini and nude beaches... :-) Hi Pascal - Nope - - They were manufactured, via a deep black contract, to permit the Air Force and the Roswell contingent to take definitive photos of UFOs. Unfortunately, the radioactive material in the glass (to provide a superlative dispersion figure) fogged the Pan X film and rendered the negatives useless. George Berger gberger@his.com