On 3/9/2011 8:54 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Stigma lenses still stink. ]'-)
You're very a-stigma-tic, sir Godfrey.
Boris
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Kind of a typical statement by a lens manufacturer trying to convince
people that their product is as good as most others.
- Schott glass is manufactured by Schneider.
- NIkon and Canon make several of their own glasses, I'm sure they
also buy from other suppliers too.
- Minolta used to make their
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:20 PM, AlunFoto wrote:
> 2011/3/9 George Sinos :
>> Dave Metz of Sigma was interviewed on This Week in Photography
>> (episode 191) and made an interesting statement. He said that all of
>> the lens makers get their glass from Hoya. The difference is in the
>> grinding
Minolta used to tout that they made their own glass, IIRC, maybe Canon
too. Canon's part of a big enough conglomerate anyway
On 3/9/2011 11:51 AM, George Sinos wrote:
Dave Metz of Sigma was interviewed on This Week in Photography
(episode 191) and made an interesting statement. He said th
2011/3/9 George Sinos :
> Dave Metz of Sigma was interviewed on This Week in Photography
> (episode 191) and made an interesting statement. He said that all of
> the lens makers get their glass from Hoya. The difference is in the
> grinding and coating. (He did say that Canon and Nikon have anot
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Hoya supplied most (I
hadn't heard all) of the optic glass used in photographic lenses.
It's part of the reason they picked up Pentax. Pentax has/had a
medical optics division (Canon and Nikon do as well) that is bigger
than the photographic division.
Dave Metz of Sigma was interviewed on This Week in Photography
(episode 191) and made an interesting statement. He said that all of
the lens makers get their glass from Hoya. The difference is in the
grinding and coating. (He did say that Canon and Nikon have another
source for a small amount of
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