RE: [Leica] m2

["Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>]

Oh yeah as well!!

How come my expensive Nikon (okay, I Know - they should be Leitz) plastic,
coated, anti-reflective , supposedly scratch resistant lenses are ALWAYS
scratched after 6 months or so? They are lovely when new, but....

And these have the best record of any so called scratch resistant lenses I
have used over the past 10 years or so.

No, I wouldn't go back to glass, but plastic sure does scratch.

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve
> LeHuray
> Sent: August 14, 1999 3:20 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] m2
>
>
> 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
> >
>