Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hamlet wrote: > > I looked through my 50 f/2 lens at a white piece of paper and found that > there was a strong yellow cast to the image. I tried this also with an 80mm > Planar for Hasselblad and it too had this yellow cast. Is such an > occurrence normal ? > > --adi > > This could caused by oxidation of the kitlayers between your lenselements. There could be cracks in the varnish at the sides of your kitted lenselements. This allows oxygen to stain your kitlayers. I once experienced this phenomenon with a Telyt-M 1:6.8/560mm. The factory in Wetzlar, replaced for me the kitlayer, free of charge!! (15 years ago!). - -- Fred Hess Den Haag / the Hague Nederland / the Netherlands (NL) tel + 31 70 325 83 12 fax + 31 70 325 86 34