Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:03 PM 2/1/2001 -0500, Michael Waldron wrote: >I have the collapse-able as it was on the M2 I bought. When I got it there >were some cleaning marks on the front, so it seems soft. I use a hood >(12585). I am not sure if it is multi-coated (I guess not) but it is >definitely coated. > More likely, these "cleaning marks" are in the coating and not in the glass itself. It is decidedly NOT "multi-coated", as Asahi and Zeiss had not developed this process until the collapsible 2/5cm had been out of production for a few years. In fact, your lens almost certainly has a drip-coating somewhat inferior to the vacuum-coating developed by Zeiss and Kodak and Wollensak and Ross in the late 1930's. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!