Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:45 AM 5/21/96 -0400, Tom Hodge wrote: >Eric and LUG'ers, > >I stumbled across - and have really flipped over - a specialty cloth >called "Luminex" made by a company in Japan called 'Toray" fronting >itself as 'world leaders in fiber technology". Well, Tom, I'm glad that the innovations of 1992 have finally caught up with you. These cloths have now been on the market for some years -- the basic idea was developed, as I recall, by RIT or some similar American school but no American company would produce them at a reasonable cost, so Luminex got on the band wagon. In any event, I got my first one in late '92 when my local camera store demanded I buy one -- and they were right! About eighteen months later, Herbert Keppler at Pop Photo suddenly found out about them and completely flummoxed the story -- claimed IN PRINT that you couldn't get them in the US and started to import them, privately, from Japan at a rather hefty price. Ah, what a bloody fool he made of himself (as he has done before and since on other issues, many and many a time.) These cloths are now produced by quite a few sources and most optical manufacturers give away or sell these imprinted with their own logo -- the Leica ones are about $5.25. Pentax and Canon do the same. I use the Zeiss ones, but machts nichts, they're all the same. They DO work -- so long as there's no grinding of grit into the lens surface, these really are remarkable. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!