Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the Glass myth, notably on the "highly refractive indexed" glass used in the Noctilux. It's so much more convincing to think that there are secret ingredients that only the elves of Schott laboratory can have access to, and that only Leica can purchase. Of course it's the optical design, the advantage of the RF design and the hand assembly tolerance that give Leica lens its magic. The glass itself is just a small part that everyone can have access to. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Chris Crawford < chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > All glass is cheap. Christ, its just melted sand! Optical glass has other > ingredients, but it is still very cheap to manufacture. The cost in making > lenses is in the cost of the precision machinery needed to grind the glass > to precise curves and the labor needed to assemble them. > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > On 3/28/12 11:51 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > > >More than cheap glass, I thing it is volume that keep prices down. I doubt > >whether Canon or Nikon use cheap glass in their top of the line offerings. > >(-: > >Cheers > >Jayanand > > > >On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Kay Yang <liangjiyang at gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> Exactly. > >> > >> If you use cheaper glass like in the canon/nikon ones, you can > >>manufacture > >> them at reasonable costs, but that's not how Leica does things. > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Doug Herr < > wildlightphoto at earthlink.net > >> >wrote: > >> > >> > Frank Filippone wrote: > >> > > >> > >Nikon and Canon both sell them....at reasonable prices.... They > >>must be > >> > >retrofocus lenses to work on an SLR. > >> > > > >> > >Maybe the problem is ... reasonable prices.... > >> > > > >> > > >> > Maybe the problem is not only making them sharp but also making them > >> small > >> > enough that they don't obstruct the RF. > >> > > >> > Doug Herr > >> > Birdman of Sacramento > >> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Leica Users Group. > >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>