Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:29 PM 2/26/06 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >Marc James Small said: >>>> <sigh> After sixty years, why is this STILL an issue?<<< >>>> These bubbles do not affect optical performance. At least, to the level >> which us normal darkroom guys can measure. They are simply a mark of >> optical excellence.<<<< > >Hey Marc, >Thank you mon ami! > >Your post confirmed I can still remember things from my long lost past >photo >life. You made my day! :-) Thank you. > >Sometimes the simplest of things can bring the greatest of pleasure. :-) Ted On the issue of bubbles in the glass, I recall your comments about that year you spent as an apprentice to the druid seer on the Rhine, back before Julius Caesar busted up the place. Wasn't his name Ernestus Leitzus? Or would it have been Maximus Barnackus? Refresh my mind! Wasn't that right after they had brought out the Leica IIIc? Or did that come out during the reign of Nero? My copy of Tacitus is upstairs and I cannot readily access it right now. You truly have seen it all, and we can only sit at wonder at your feet to feel the twinges of the ages on us! And, yes, <he grins>. Ted is aged but not old: he might well have sported his kilt when Caractacus fought the Romans but, hey, to this Eternal Man, that was only yesterday. We may only sit in admiration at a lifetime that has run from the days of the Cave Man to the present. After all, it is an honor to know him. And, Ted, tell us, after all these years: just how DID you kill those Dire Bears? Is it true that you blinded them with flash bulbs before killing them with your snickersnee? Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505