Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: From Contax
From: chefurka@sympatico.ca (Paul Chefurka)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:15:25 GMT

On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 07:06:05 -0800, Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
wrote:

>At 05:03 AM 11/20/99 -0800, Roy Feldman wrote:
>>On the Contax SLR list a interesting thread: One person asked the best way 
>>to clean a lens, Bob Shell of Shudderbug answered that he heard at Leica 
>>they use chamois, then Henry Posner of B&H corrected him stating that 
>>Leica used virgin peacock tongue.
>>Erwin- Marc- can I get a part number?
>
>Chamois? A dead one, or a live one? Any of you European LUGnuts go chamois 
>hunting for len-cleaning cloths?

You can do that in Switzerland, but the rules say you can only use a
.22 and one bullet...

Paul Chefurka