Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/23

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Subject: [Leica] The slippery slope - "digital"?
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sat Dec 23 16:34:49 2006
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Kaching, kaching! Canon being upstaged by Nikon? Unheard of!

Slobodan Dimitrov
http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/



On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Don Dory wrote:

> The Japanese optical industry is/has removed lead especially and  
> most other
> heavy(toxic) metals from their optical glass over the last five  
> years or
> so.  The hazards to the workers in the smelters became too apparant to
> tolerate any more.  The Canon folks assured me that as they figured  
> out
> optical glasses that don't use toxic materials they would re-issue  
> a similar
> lens; with the good success of the Nikon 200 F2 you can bet that  
> Canon will
> bring out a revised version fairly soon.
>
> 0.02
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 12/23/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >  Bonus benefit--the Canon EF 200mm f/1.8L.  A lens like no other  
>> and no
>> longer
>> >  manufactured, supposedly because of some glass-formulation  
>> chemical
>> process that even
>> >  Asians won't tolerate.
>>
>> I don't like to see slurs like this. Please be more respectful.  
>> You could
>> have made your point just as well by saying "process that no one will
>> tolerate".
>>
>>
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