Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Charles, you said in your message about 90mm Tele-Elmarits and your conversation with Don Chatterton that he had said that "he is able to sell only one (1) in four (4) or five (5) of the lenses he gets. The rest he discards due to this damage." After my own experience with Mr. Chatterton, I wanted to urge you to take this comment with a grain of salt. I mean, doesn't it strike you as a little strange that Mr. Chatterton would go on buying Tele-Elmarits when he can only sell one in four or five and has to throw away the rest? Why can't he examine them before he buys them? Or if they go bad on the shelf, why doesn't he refrigerate them? Something about buying Tele-Elmarits in bunches like oysters and then discarding the ones that don't have pearls in them sounds a little exaggerated to me. I guess I'm sensitive to inconsistencies in Mr. Chatterton's statements, having heard quite a bunch of them myself recently.