Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
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the paint seems to leap off the lenses without human intervention. Once exposed to air the slightest current carries the paint away. Seriously it does not seem as though the surface is properly prepped the paint comes off in large chips anytime it makes contact with other items in your bag (Leica lenses and Nikon and Canon do not so this)...my green R2 body suffers the same malady.
But like I also said, WHO CARES. The price/performance ratio is so much in the favor of CV stuff particularly in wide or fast (seldom used) optics...
My CV stuff, my Leica M stuff my Hasselblad stuff and my Nikon SLR stuff (F F2 FM FM2 series/vintage) all gets tossed in Domkes and carted around the globe. ONLY the CV stuff sheds paint with abandon.
Mark
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This issue of paint finish is interesting. Does the paint chip off or
just
wear from contact with your hands?
Gene
"Steve Unsworth"
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owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: RE:
[Leica] Voightlander lenses
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07/22/2003 11:32 AM
Please respond to
leica-users
Certainly my 28mm and 90mm have lost quite a bit of paint, the 15mm, and
21mm haven't. Perhaps it's the different design, of perhaps the 15 and
21mm
barrels aren't brass.
The (silk screened?) Voigtlander logo on the lens caps seems to disappear
from all the lenses very easily too :-)
Steve
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Voightlander lenses
...CV products seem to automatically repell the paint from the barrel but
if
yu buy a lens to use...who cares
Mark
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