Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For what it's worth, I bought a current model Elamrit-M 90mm, SN 364xxxx, about a year ago. No imperfections in the coating. This may not be one a recent batch, though --- when I bought it, it had been the display model for some time at a duty-free shop at Heathrow Terminal 4. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. At 01:31 PM 1/6/97 -0700, you wrote: > >For the past month I've been involved in an informative series of exchanges >with B+H camera. I bought a 90/2.8 M lens there in early December. When I >returned home from the trip to New York City I noticed that the coating on >the rear and front elements had three or four little specks in it that >showed up as bright, mirror-like reflections. These defects were in the >coating and did not respond to Dust-Off, a microfiber cloth, or a Lenspen. >I sent the lens back and received a second lens (diff. serial number, but >still 369xxxx). This lens had a couple of the specks on the fron element >and a distorted spot in the coating. The rear element looked ok. I returned >the lens again and the third lens was just fine. The third lens is not in >the ser. #369xxxx batch. > >It seems that Leica has had a problem with a recent batch of 90/2.8 lenses.