Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do you believe in all legends? Multicoating was definitely jointly productionised by Zeiss and Pentax and an unknown American company called Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. - after some years Leitz obtained a licence. The idea itself is about 100 years old. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 18. elokuuta 2000 14:12 Aihe: Re: [Leica] M-Rokkor story >Stephen Gandy wrote: >> >> I've re-read the CL tests by Modern and Popular Photography, neither of them >> mention multi coating. Even though Theo Kisselbach's book "Leica CL" is quite >> definite about the CL lenses being "coated," there is no hint of better coating or >> coating improvements, nor is there any mention of multi coating. If Kisselback >> doesn't know the CL lenses are multi-coated, its very difficult to believe they are, >> regardless of any claims to the contrary. >> >> Stephen Gandy >> >When I was a much younger man the conventional wisdom, or lore about Leitz >lenses was Leitz had been doing multi-coating for years before an advertising >genius made great copy for Pentax. Leitz never stated that their lenses were >multi-coated they just assumed that was the right way to do it, so the legend goes. >John Shick