Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary Klein wrote: > > Next month I plan on plunking down the cash to get a new Heliar with a screw > to m adapter for my M. Which finish style tyof the lenses you have seen > looks better done. The other week, Jerry at Werner's in Denver had both finishes in stock and I spent a good deal of time agonizing before going with silver. Unlike a Leica lens, there's no weight penalty when you go with silver. In the end, I went with the silver finish: It's a good match for a newish M6 and should be an okay one (probably duller) for the IIIf RD I just bought. The front of the silver lens looks a bit jagged (nothing to do with bad machining and everything to do with the way the lenshood is baffled). The black finish masks this, but I thought the rather thin engravings were easier to read on the silver model. - -- Jeff Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado