Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: glass or plastic
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:16:32 -0800

I don't know about you, but I am not worried about much in 50 years.
Besides, Digital will replace conventional photography long before that.

Peter K

> ----------
> From: 	Joe Stephenson[SMTP:joeleica@flash.net]
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Wednesday, January 27, 1999 8:45 PM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	Re: [Leica] Re: glass or plastic
> 
> But Dennis,
> How do we know what plastic lenes will look like in 50 years? Perhaps they
> will be yellow and crazed like so much of the old plastics that one sees
> now.
> Sincerely,
> Joe Stephenson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: glass or plastic
> 
> 
> >Dan Post wrote:
> ><huge snip>
> >> So, what's wrong with plastics?
> >> Dan
> >
> >I don't know if anything is wrong with plastic lenses. I would say there
> >is nothing wrong if a plastic lens made today is unchanged 50 years from
> >now, provided it's performance is equal to or better than a glass
> >counterpart.
> >
> >Dennis
> >
>