Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: > > On 22-01-1999 02:32 Jim Brick wrote: > > >Leica does not make their own glass (except for R&D) and Leica buys > >standard "off the shelf" glass from Hoya, Schott, and others. Standard > >glass catalog items. Eloquently dissertated to us by Erwin. > > That's right: I have been told at Leica that they have four main > suppliers (two Japanese, one of them Hoya, and two European, one of them > Schott). And apparently the "special" glass would mainly come from the > European sources. > As for the polishing/grinding machines, many of them could be bought by > any lensmaker. snip > > Pascal I don't know if Leica's new cheap ASPH's is something they have that the other guys don't. Are these lens grinding machines on the open market? I thought Leica developed these techniques. Mark RAbiner