Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations! You are among the lucky bunch! I am not perfectly sure, but it may contain Lanthanium. Martin The Helios 85mm seems to be very well put together.It's quite heavy..probably more than the Elan 7 with a 28-135. I would assume that more experienced workers got to assemble these. Mine is from (i guess)1985. Really ,besides the slightly crude rotating tripod collar,stiffish focus,it seems to be a VERY high quality lens. I notice that the glass has a distince yellow cast....doe it contain Lanthanum? I got some pics back today that I shot with it...they look really great.Just if I can get that damn Canon to meter with it properly!! >From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Helios 85/1.5?history? >Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:34:52 -0400 > >At 08:49 AM 10/3/01 +0200, Martio? ZelmenisZW5pcw== wrote: > > > >Well, it was just my experience - you're right, it depends largely on > >choice - but then even meticulous choice may be a bad guide. If you take > >such risks, you may end up with lenses that are badly constructed, liable >to > >break easily because of it - and of bad materials as well. And it doesn't > >show on the first moment. It's just too easy to end up with a lemon. > >Well, I've been buying and using SPS lenses and cameras for more than a >decade and have had a failure rate of around 10%. The other 90% have >worked well and the optical quality of the lenses is astonishingly good. I >regularly use Russian glass on my M6. > >Cuique sua res, but it is dangerous to make a broad and general statement >based solely upon our own experience. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html