Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HUH? Animal Grease attacks Leica owner sotry at 11. Gosh I had a Tele Elmarit I bought new in 1986 and shot with it for 12 years before replacing it recently with a SUmmicron (90). Never attacked me even though it produced wonderful pictures in Europe, Africa Australia and the Americas...buy the lens if it works (apature and focus) and the glass is clean and fungi free - -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cheatham <jcheatham@lex.lib.sc.us> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:58 AM Subject: [Leica] 90mm Tele-Elmarit (1984) >I am thinking about buying a 90/2.8 Tele-Elmarit that was made >(according to the numbers in Sartorius) in 1984. Steven Gandy (Camera >Quest) warns the Tele-Elmarits have a "chronic problem to look out >for.... animal based grease which could attack the lens coating of the >rear elements. Once it starts, there are no cures other than new >glass...." > >Is there any way to tell whether the lens has this problem? How common >is this? Is the Tele-Elamarit are really "good" lens? I will be buying >through the mail from an individual, probably with "no return", etc. >Any recommendations? > >Thank you - Jim Cheatham >