Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shhhh, Elliot. Don't give them any ideas! Now, if used prices go up another 25%, remember, it's *all* *your* *fault*! :-) I can see it now. Notorious Leica forger Vladimir "Vapors" Chukrutnik coats a Noctilux using a boiling teakettle of Pinot Noir de Fois Gras, Chateau Trop Cher, '49. He sells it for $18,500 to collector Graham "Gullible" Wyndebag III, who is convinced the Noct has a rare prototype Potassium Permanganate-laced coating designed to reduce both reflections and lens fungus in humid climates. - --Peter Klein Seattle, WA >"Dr. Elliot Puritz" <drpuritz@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >I know Henry, but another Luger said the coatings are of a different color >depending upon the glass used...such should be reasonably obvious. Guess I >will have to go to a store that has several of each lens, and compare >colors! Heck...I can see the scenario unfolding...we will start to collect >different colors of summilux lenses...wonder which color will be the >rarest....should start to see the depictions turn up on Ebay. "Blue green >coating on this summilux...almost as rare as the green blue with a tinge of >turquoise..." - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html