Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: I actually tried a scratch proof set of lenses made by Nikon. They were more expensive, but have held up for at least five years now, almost equivalent to the glass in scrach resistance, but lighter. They were multicoated as well. Regards, Robert At 01:34 PM 8/14/99 -0700, you wrote: >Marc James Small wrote: >> >> At 08:51 AM 8/14/1999 -0500, Alan Brown wrote: >> >Or is there another option to >> >keeping my glasses from getting scratched? >> > >> >> Glass lenses. Avoid plastic lenses at all costs -- even the new >> "Scratch-Proof" plastics cannot compete with glass. >> >> Besides, most glass lenses are made by Corning or Zeiss, I believe. >> Rodenstock is a big player in plastic lenses, but I am not certain who else >> makes them. >> >> Marc >> >> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >We had a fellow on the list by the name of Zeissler (Mitch?) who told me he had >Zeiss glass put in his frames. >Impressed the heck out of me but as I thought they were more hard to get. >When I go to the glasses store I say "No I'm a photographer" when they try to >sell me on plastic. >I explain to them that us photographers are very aware of the differences >between plastic and glass and would not dream of looking through plastic all >day. That never works. >So I tell them I am very hard on my lenses. That doesn't work either. So I tell >them to just give me the damn glass anyway I don't care if you have to go to >some weird lab you have less of a great deal going with. >Mark Rabiner > >