Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [Leica} 50mm Summicron-M and flare
From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 20:54:25 +0800

Whenever I buy a Leica lens more than 20 years old (and there has been
plenty), I always get them cleaned.  No exceptions.  There is just something
with haze and Leitz.

Ray

> Take the lens off and stop it down.  Hold it up to a light source and look
> through the rear element.  See if there is  a shadow cast by the diaphragm
> on the lens element immediately behind it.  My second-generation Summicron
> has a hazy element at this position.
> 
> Mike D
> 
>

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