Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roger Beamon wrote: > > Any comments + or - on this lens? > -- > Roger Beamon > Naturalist & Photographer > Leica Historical Society Of America > mailto:beamon@primenet.com > > Thought for the day: > It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. I own a olive green Elmar-R 1.4/180mm. It is a good a objektive, mechanicaly. But the optical performance is a littlebit poor. It shows some "pillow-shapped" distortion. My lens also showes a brown flare. This may be caused by the Canada-balsam-kit-layers, may be they the are oxidated. This may the result of some smalle cracks in the lacker on the edge of the glasses. The contact with oxygen and kit-layers sometimes changes the clour of the kit. I sent my lens to LEICA to check it out. It is a compact lens and performes well in the macro-range, combined with the ELPRO's 4 & 3 and Macro-adapter-R 14256. Kind regards, Fred Hess Den Haag / the Hague Nederland / the Netherlands (NL) tel + 31 70 325 83 12 fax + 31 70 325 86 34