Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:00 PM 3/25/97 -0800, Stephen Gandy wrote: >BTW, did you ever consider that all those clean lenses you see at shows >have already been cleaned since they cannot be easily sold without that >cleaning? Look for the original owner coming in the door to sell his >vintage 50's and 60's Leicas. You will almost certainly find fogged >lenses to some degree or another. > Every show I work, I probably look at a dozen Leica bodies and ten or twenty lenses being offered for sale. I have never noted a preponderance of fogged glass in Leica lenses. Leica lenses, in my experience, are far cleaner than are other makes of the era, especially the Japanese lenses, as they did not, and still do not, enjoy a quality supply of optical glass in that country. This is my experience, but its a pretty wide one, and one going back quite a few years. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!