Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We do suck the heads and eat the tails. But the sucking mostly gets the stuff they were boiled in (which doesn't tend to attach itself to the tail meat). My biggest offender re: the threads is a FED Elmar copy (collapsible) 50/3.5 with a serial number of 8439. -- Jeffery ---- Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> wrote: > 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! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information