Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V12 #4
From: kabob@tiac.net (Bob Keene/Karen Shehade)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:49:56 -0400

Hey group-

can these pens be used to "whiten" the green numbering on Hasselblad
lenses? I'm always annoyed in dim light that I can't see my distances....

bob Keene

>
>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:48:56 -0500
>From: Mark Newport <newport_m@utpb.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] White Stuff for the Numbers on Lenses
>
>>I've gotten beautiful old 35 Summicron-R that makes incredibly nice
>>pictures.  But the white numbers have become so dull with age that I can
>>hardly read them.  Is there a source for white paint to refill the engraved
>>numbers?  And is there a technique for doing it?  I know I could send it to
>>DAG, but I'd like to do it myself.
>
>This place:
>http://www.micro-tools.com/
>
>used to have paint pens to fix that lettering. Check them out.
>
>
>Newp