> I'm afraid rhat your facts are confused, the Nikkor 1.4/50 was introduced to > the market in __July 1950__; the Nikkor 1.5/50 was introduced in January 1950 > using Japanese glass manufactured in the Shinagawa-Ku plant, Tokyo, not Schott > glass (Source is the Nikon official web site, these are historic facts, not > hype). > My facts are not confused, the Nikon S camera was introduced in the market in > 1950, the five new lenses for this first "S" camera were Nikkor-W 3.5cm f/3.5, > Nikkor-O 5cm f/3.5, Nikkor-H 5.0 cm f/2.0, __Nikkor-P 8.5cm f/2.0__ and > Nikkor-Q 13.5cm f/4.0. The letters are a code for the the number of the > elments: > U (Uns) for 1 element I'm not agreeing fully at all with Marc but I don't see why an appearance on the Nikon website makes something an historical fact?!?!? If Nikon was given to promoting a deception the place they would promote that would be on its website would it not? Mark William Rabiner --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list