Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: David W. Almy >True story: Bought a new 35 1.4 ASPH delivered 12/24/96. Looked fine at >first glance. [...] >Last night, preparing for a large project which starts Monday, closely >inspected lens. There is a huge piece of lint dead center of the lens just >behind the aperture blades, INSIDE THE LENS!! Also a smaller spec, >seemingly on the same surface, off to the side. Cripes!! I was considering a 35mm ASPH show sample that had a fibrous looking thing inside it. Since it was a show sample, I suspected the foreign object had worked it's way in over the course of repeated handling. Strange that a new one would show this. - Kevin kburke@iterated.com