Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: >I have often wondered if people buy Leica's to use for photography, or as >an exercise in mechanical/optical study.>>>>>> Hi Jim, Until I joined the LUG and started reading what some of them go through testing and checking, I have to say that in all my years I never thought of these nit picking things. Actually never occurred to me to do the testing many of them describe. hell I was just glad to get the lens in hand, onto the assignment allowing me to capture images others couldn't unless they had the equal lens. These tiny little thingies that are seen, certainly blasting a halogen light through the lens are bound to show something and mean diddly squat! Who cares, get out and take some dam pictures and see what you get! That's the best test of any! If you find the images are lousy, maybe look at self ability first and lens second! :) But as you & Leica say, I'll repeat. These little speckies in no way make any difference to the recorded image on the film. Most of these guys going through this "light look through thing" will have created a twitch in the knickers of a bunch of Luggites, hell they'll all be running out buying halogen lights to shine through the lens. Then there'll be a hundred posts whining about speckies inside the lens and whine whine etc. I know a couple of users, you and I, that are not going to be doing it, a total waste of time, besides I'd hate to look in mine after all these years! :) Or even at the new ones. Besides as long as my images come out Leica looking, then I don't need to look through them. I'd much rather be out shooting than fiddling and farting around over this twaddling nonsense! >About your 100/2.8 . Are you really interested in someone taking it all >apart, attempting to clean it, then reassembling it, without introducing >more problems? I personally would just use it. I wouldn't have this dilemma >in the first place... I can't imagine anyone whining about a situation like this without shooting film to see what the outcome is. And for someone to even suggest finding a technician to take it apart to clean before using it, is ludicrous! Then what would happen when it's reassembled and the owner sees more thingies than there were before? Tear down and start all over? To accomplish an absolutely "clean air environment" the lens would have be done in one of the "clean air labs" for medical or aerospace work. Quite frankly I fear the posts that are going to arrive in the days ahead! I guess it's quick delete time for them. Me? I'm out shooting! :) To hell with the halogens and speckies! :) ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant