Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] impurities in lens
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:52:18 -0400

Ted Grant mentioned:

>>  They're not and at one time the "real old time
>> photographers" looked for "bubbles" in the glass of a lens, as that was
>> a mark of a better lens.

In reponse, Chris Lee jotted down the following:
 
> How can a bubble in a lens improve image quality?

Ah, but he didn't say that it improved image quality.  He said it was seen
as a mark of a better lens.  Much like the red dot is the mark of a better
camera body, I imagine.  Doesn't necessarily improve image quality ;)

M.

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