Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/13

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Subject: RE: Something's Really Wrong...with a 35 ASPH
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 18:14:52 -0500

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.