Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M3 viewfinder killing eyeglasses - was Photographer's Block
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:06:49 -0500
References: <3.0.2.32.20020121170350.01a5dbd4@roanoke.infi.net>

At 05:11 PM 1/21/02 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Come on, Marc. It may be an option for you. But I know I would never want to
>go back to glass lenses and have to carry that weight around on my nose all
>day. There are, however, some really good coatings now for hardening plastic
>lenses. I've had glasses for six months, a year, without a single scratch of
>any kind.

I have bad eyes and my glasses are not light -- but glass is the best way
to go.  The weight is meaningless.  The heaviest pair of glasses weigh a
LOT less than does the smallest Leica lens, after all.

I do agree about modern plastics and coatings, though.  I am experimenting
with a pair of plastic glasses at the challenge of my optometrist, and I
have now had them for two years, and they work fine so far.  I have not
babied them -- but my M3 has yet to mark them in the least.

But, still, glass is the way to go.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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