Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/21
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At 11:40 AM -0500 3/21/01, TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote:
> The barrels on the Voigtlander lenses are made from alloy, but they are
>hard-anodized and then painted. The process of hardanodizing the alloy turns
>it a yellow color, somewhat in between brass and gold. The paint can chip,
>particularly on the early lenses. I have a seriously "brassed" 75/2,5 and an
>equally "brassed" 50/1,5. They do kind of look good on battered black paint
>M2's and M3's and even start matching my Millenium M6.
>Tom A
Hmmmm.
Is the hood of the Nokton brass? It doesn't seem to be aluminum
based; much too heavy, and fairly deep gouges still show the 'brass'
colour.
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