Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:24 PM 5/24/06 -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote: >I like the older glass and the older look. I've had mixed luck with the >Russian lenses (some of them have some poor threads, I can't get them >completely on the body). But I seem to be a non-asph person. And I hold in >the highest esteem good shots taken with humble equipment over good shots >taken with the best. Sometimes, Daniel makes me feel downright worthless >when he blows me away with Russian optics or a Rolleicord. Jefrey, my lad! Much as I love you, allow me to remind you that, had I taken you to raise, I'd have taught you to steal, crawdads, if naught else. <he grins>. Prewar Soviet/Post-Soviet (SPS) lenses do have a lot of threading problems as the Soviets could not believe that the actual thread of true LTM is 39mm by 26 turns-per-inch Whitworth. But I am not aware of any threading problems with Postwar lenses thought, of course, I'm interested in further information -- lens type, factory, and the like. I will attempt to collate your date and to share it with the scholars of these breeds. Someone did ask how those of us in the Appalachians ate crawdads. We "bite them in the ass and sick out their brains", a phrase first mentioned in the Pittsburgh Post back around 1885, with the asterisks appropriate for that era. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!