Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] M 135 Opinions/Comments/Anecdotes/Cautions
From: Leicajay at aol.com (Leicajay@aol.com)
Date: Tue Mar 30 07:19:29 2004
 
<<In a message dated 03/29/2004 7:42:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
jbcollier@shaw.ca writes:
The Tele-Elmar is stunning all the way from stopped down to wide open 
and from infinity to close. Not as good as the Hektor when stopped down 
on a bellows though. Nice pocketable size and weight and reasonably 
priced. Older samples may require a CLA.>>


Interestingly in all my years with Leica I've never seen a 135 T-E that 
needed a CLA for the optics due to haze (though I'm sure some of them have been 
stored such that they got fungus, I've never seen one fungused either).  The 
parallel-cam focus coupling however does often need to be cleaned and relubed to 
prevent erratic action.