Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To Marc and Mark, Some things die hard don't they? There is nothing wrong with plastic eyeglass lenses. Why would anybody want to walk around with twice the wait sitting on their nose. I know that both of you won't beleive it but they DO NOT scratch. Oh, maybe if you take a scew driver and drag it across the lens but the gentle rubbing against a brass viewfinder will leave nary a mark (oops) scratch. Steve Annapolis - ---------- >From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] m2 >Date: Sat, Aug 14, 1999, 4:34 PM > >Marc James Small wrote: >> >> At 08:51 AM 8/14/1999 -0500, Alan Brown wrote: >> >Or is there another option to >> >keeping my glasses from getting scratched? >> > >> >> Glass lenses. Avoid plastic lenses at all costs -- even the new >> "Scratch-Proof" plastics cannot compete with glass. >> >> Besides, most glass lenses are made by Corning or Zeiss, I believe. >> Rodenstock is a big player in plastic lenses, but I am not certain who else >> makes them. >> >> Marc >> >> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >We had a fellow on the list by the name of Zeissler (Mitch?) who told me he had >Zeiss glass put in his frames. >Impressed the heck out of me but as I thought they were more hard to get. >When I go to the glasses store I say "No I'm a photographer" when they try to >sell me on plastic. >I explain to them that us photographers are very aware of the differences >between plastic and glass and would not dream of looking through plastic all >day. That never works. >So I tell them I am very hard on my lenses. That doesn't work either. So I tell >them to just give me the damn glass anyway I don't care if you have to go to >some weird lab you have less of a great deal going with. >Mark Rabiner >