khuyen
27-01-2007, 09:48 AM
Lang thang trên mạng tình cờ lụm được cái này, nghe cũng hay hay!
Summi comes from "summa" maning the highest honor, related to the word summit, or peak. They knew what they had back then. ; )
"cron" is from the greek word khromatikos or color, so summicron is roughly the peak of color hashed to gether from latin and greek.
"lux" is light so summilux is the peak of light
"nocti" is night, so noctilux, the brightest lenses from leica literally mean light at night.
It is a clever naming system, because the lenses are coded by max aperture, and various attributes.
So . . .
Elmar (a derivation on the designers's last names [Ernst], [Leica] and [Ma]x Berek).
Vario means zoom, and comes from the "R" mount, which is the SLR mount from Leica, who have three moutns, "R" for SLR, "M" for rangefinder, and "D" for digital or 4/3 in this case.
Elmar is f/3.5 or f/4 max aperture
Elmarit is f/2.8 max aperture
Summicron is f/2 max aperture
Summilux is f/1.4 max aperture
Noctilux is f/1.2 max aperture
Ther are some others in between and above, but I forget them.
It is actually a cool way of doing it, because once you know the wording, without looking at the lens lineup the names spell some stuff out for you.
Hence, when the Leica "D" vario elmarit was released in 4/3 mount with the Panasonic DMC-L1 Lumix we already understood several things about it . . .
It was a "vario" meaning zoom lens, it was Elamrit, meaning f2.8 at its brightest. Lo and behold, we got a 14-50mm f/2.8-3.5 lens.
Summi comes from "summa" maning the highest honor, related to the word summit, or peak. They knew what they had back then. ; )
"cron" is from the greek word khromatikos or color, so summicron is roughly the peak of color hashed to gether from latin and greek.
"lux" is light so summilux is the peak of light
"nocti" is night, so noctilux, the brightest lenses from leica literally mean light at night.
It is a clever naming system, because the lenses are coded by max aperture, and various attributes.
So . . .
Elmar (a derivation on the designers's last names [Ernst], [Leica] and [Ma]x Berek).
Vario means zoom, and comes from the "R" mount, which is the SLR mount from Leica, who have three moutns, "R" for SLR, "M" for rangefinder, and "D" for digital or 4/3 in this case.
Elmar is f/3.5 or f/4 max aperture
Elmarit is f/2.8 max aperture
Summicron is f/2 max aperture
Summilux is f/1.4 max aperture
Noctilux is f/1.2 max aperture
Ther are some others in between and above, but I forget them.
It is actually a cool way of doing it, because once you know the wording, without looking at the lens lineup the names spell some stuff out for you.
Hence, when the Leica "D" vario elmarit was released in 4/3 mount with the Panasonic DMC-L1 Lumix we already understood several things about it . . .
It was a "vario" meaning zoom lens, it was Elamrit, meaning f2.8 at its brightest. Lo and behold, we got a 14-50mm f/2.8-3.5 lens.