Leica M+1.0 Diopter Correction Lens for M-Series Cameras (14351)

[Music] hi I'm James and welcome to get educated in our last episode Daniel from Leica showed us the current M series rangefinders today we're going to take a look at the lenses let's have a look hi Daniel thanks for being back on get educated thanks James it's great to be here now like I have a legendary reputation for lens quality can you tell us a bit about how this came about absolutely so like a spawned off from a company called lights Microsystems and they made microscopes and that was more than 150 years ago so like I have carried on that tradition of the absolute highest optical quality possible in terms of manufacturing all of the em lenses are manufactured by hand including several processes such as manually blacking the elements for their edges and a spherical grinding processes which were developed by Leica like I actually introduced the first aspherical lens which was the f