Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/04

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Subject: Re: Yellow cast
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 23:40:35 -0500

At 06:10 AM 11/4/97 +0000, Dan Khong wrote:
>I vaguely remember reading that some of the Leitz glass made contained
>Thorium and this gave a yellow colouration to the elements years later.
>You might be holding such a 50mm lens.   However, the radioactivity is safe
>and is unlikely to kill the owner.

"... unlikely to kill the owner ... "  I like those odds!

Marc


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