Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At least here in India, practically every Leica lens from the 1950s that I have seen has haze and scratches, could it be due to the heat & humidity? Haze seems to be easy enough to remove, but the scratching quite often is pretty severe, especially from cleaning the front of the lens. In fact most of us here who use these cameras prefer Nikon/Canon lenses and bodies in the LTM mount, as they are much easier to use, and the lenses are generally in much better shape. Cheers Jayanand On 1/12/07, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote: > > At 06:42 PM 1/11/2007, Leonard Taupier wrote: > > > >What I like about the early Nikon lenses > >is they were not prone to the haze and element scratch problems of > >the Leicas. > > Leonard > > Stephen Gandy and I have argued for 15 years over > the "haze" issue on 1950's Leica lenses. I have > never seen much of this but then I am on the East > Coast of the US and Stephen is on the West, so it > might just be a regional thing. <he grins> > > The "element scratch problems" are generally the > result of the drying of the drip-coatings Leitz > was required to use during the time. I cover > this in my LTM lens book. <he grins, again> > > 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 >