Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] Schneideritis
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Sep 1 13:47:50 2005

Damn, I forgot that smiley again ;-)


> From: Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:23:10 +0200
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Schneideritis
> 
> The typical white spots in some Schneider lenses (commonly known as
> Schneideritis) are pretty harmless to the glass and absolutely not the same
> as acid markings from fungus. Just send it for a CLA and the lens will
> return fine. The exact origin of the spots remained a big question until
> recently. It seems that one of the workers of the assembly line of certain
> Schneider lenses just had a severe case of dandruft. This combined with an
> oily substance he put in his hair called brillantine made the hair 
> particles
> invisible in the lens during quality control before leaving the factory 
> (due
> to refraction of light). It is only after a number of years and after a
> chemical reaction following on temperatures above 45,7? centigrade, that
> these white spots become visible. Visible but harmless.
> At least that's what I've heard.
> 
> 
>> From: David Lee <leirex@sbcglobal.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:07:16 -0700 (PDT)
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] Schneideritis
>> 
>> Hello,
>>  
>>   Can anyone educate me on Schneideritis?  What is it and what effect 
>> does it
>> have on optical performance?
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> 
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