Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear DanCxxxx Politefully I beg to trash your opinion, and, insidiously, you. Close, but no cigar. It is where Leica beaniebabies put a checkmark to confirm that the lens is up to the standards of the 1950's. Ever see a case with such markings? I think not. (et aussi je cherche M. R. Descartes) Plus, if a Canadian pen was EVER used to put the mark, two things result. First, the lens is guaranteed not to work, and second, the value to collectors is one bazillion (+/- depends on if the pen was black or chrome) times greater than if the pen was German. Never, ever, use a lens without a check-marked case. I have it on good authority from a Solmsian insider that new management techniques are being put in place to catch the renegades who attempt to produce functioning equipment, and to immediately banish them to Pressure Plate Cave, where they must use only the smoothest parts of their bodies. Non-photographers writing the lens focal length on the dot are on the right track, tho'. "What lens shall I extract too late to take this picture?" It's a good job they do this, otherwise they'd just pull the lens right out of their pocket or bag, get the image (in their mind), and then be totally disappointed when they saw the results produced by the current coke-bottle lenses. Let's campaign for the gray to change to Red. That'll make the lenses much more collectable. Did I make it to anyone's (uv?) filter list? Guido the unrepentant >From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Gray Dot On Lens Case Bottoms >Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 19:55:10 -0400 > >I think the grey dot means that a store employee borrowed the lens for the >weekend, spilled barbeque sauce on it, and tried to use acetone to clean >it. At least, I think this is what it means, I may be wrong. > >Dan C. > >;-) > >At 08:38 PM 30-05-99 -0400, you wrote: > >> my guess is that it indicates a silver (as opposed to black) chrome >lens in > >> what's inside. at least, i couldn't imagine what else it might stand >for. > > > > > >Wrong answer. I don't know what it's for but that's not it. Or to say it > >differently, two very new lenses recently purchased are both black and > >have a -silver- dot. And you know something..? I don't care a whit about > >the case. <chuckle> > > > > rwyble@erols.com > > Richard J. Wyble > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com