Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/22

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Subject: [Leica] older lens CLA question
From: langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer)
Date: Fri Jul 22 07:52:20 2005
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Don and others,

Who would you suggest for the Nikkors?  I have a couple in LTM and one
in Contax mount that are somewhat short of outstanding in their
performance.  I suspect that they are capable of better performance.

Mark

On 7/22/05, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bill,
> As a general rule, the only lenses in your menagerie that I would
> automatically CLA are the Canon's, especially if they date back to the
> Serenar days.  Mostly to put modern lubricants on the helicals as all
> my old Serenars benefited greatly from new lubricants.
> 
> As to the Nikkors, if you have a truly talented tech who understands
> how to properly put a lens back together then you might do the
> Nikkors.  Why you ask?  These lenses were assembled by some nice young
> ladies with variable quality control; the lens might look good but
> spacing could be off or elements not centered properly.  So, a
> talented tech who knows how the lens should be could make you shooting
> pleasure a pleasure instead of a hit or miss proposition.
> 
> I learned this when I had two 50 1.4's, one was a dog and the other
> was truly outstanding.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> On 7/22/05, Bill Smith <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Sirs/ Madams:
> >
> > I have acquired a number of old Canon RF, Nikon Non-AI, and AI-S lenses 
> > (all in excellent shape) in the last year. Should I get them CLA'd now 
> > before I use them as a precautionary matter for pic quality, etc or 
> > would it be a waste of $$$$? I can get it done for about $40 per each 
> > here in Korea.
> >
> > Maybe I'll use them for the next 20 yrs. before I "check out" 
> > permanently, unless I can figure out a way to take them w/ me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith) ([Leica] older lens CLA question)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] older lens CLA question)