Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:44 AM 13-01-97 EST, Kevin wrote: > >>From: David W. Almy > >>True story: Bought a new 35 1.4 ASPH delivered 12/24/96. Looked fine at >>first glance. [...] > >>Last night, preparing for a large project which starts Monday, closely >>inspected lens. There is a huge piece of lint dead center of the lens just >>behind the aperture blades, INSIDE THE LENS!! Also a smaller spec, >>seemingly on the same surface, off to the side. Cripes!! > >I was considering a 35mm ASPH show sample that had a fibrous looking >thing inside it. Since it was a show sample, I suspected the foreign object >had worked it's way in over the course of repeated handling. Strange that >a new one would show this. > For a lens that cost as much as the ASPH does, these stories are amazing. Dan C.