Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 90/2-M APO-ASPH availability
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:18:46 -0700

The same sort of production bottleneck they ran into with the first 35
Summilux Aspherical. The glass molding technology only works (for now) for
lens elements up to about 25mm in diameter.

> Francesco,
>
> According to Roger Horn, Pres. Leica USA, the lens should not be available
> until the end of the 1st qtr. next year.  Seems there is a problem with
> production of the large ground asph element used in the lens.
> Delivery cannot
> be scheduled with any certainty until this is worked out.
>
> Bill Rosauer
>