Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom Henson wrote: >>> Now Ted, you had to go and spoil it for me. > > Now I'm going to have to send my lens off to Leica land and hope (dare say) > they can fix the problem without creating more. > > Last time they opened up a lens of mine I regretted it.<<<< Now now Tom, be kind! ;-) Maybe best you rotate that lens back and forth a few hundred times end to end and it'll smooth right out! :-) Besides if you send the lens in maybe they'll be kind enough to send you a new one! ;-) However, I'd not hold my breath! ;-) Sorry to have spoiled your day, but this new one is just as smooth as anything to where I can almost focus by placing one finger pressure against the lens barrel and rolls easily from end to end, much along the lines of the 70 -180 2.8 And that doesn't mean sloppy or anything like that, it's just as smooth as silk. The zooming ring is firmer, but it needs to be that way anyway. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html