RE: [OM] How many aperture blades on 50/2 macro?

[Harridge, Wayne]

John L wrote:

> 
> Did you mean that the Leitz design was similar to one of the 
> Carl Zeiss
> ones?  Many other lens makers (some of them very good ones) copied the
> basics of Carl Zeiss designs as patents ran out on them; the Tessar in
> particular.
> 

I thought the Elmar was basically a Tessar design, true ?

Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/  

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