Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark my 50 asph which I got new (a 6 bit baby) was a little stiffer to turn than the focus on my 28 asph. I do like the focus tabs on both. I operated the focus from min to max a couple of hundred times while reading my LUG mail and it seems awfully smooth and very usable. A few hundred more times in support of exposing film. Marty over here has commented that he can feel the extra focus helix complexity. I haven't noticed. It is a little firmer only. There is absolutely zero detectable play which makes for great precision. Maybe my thumb and index finger have buffed up. Or you're spending too much time with girly AF lenses that get refocused by a stiff breeze. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- > Reading Erwin's thing he came out with yesterday makes me think more and more now that I've slept on it and with the tornado and flooding and all that Mr. Lee has an idea of getting Leica to reclaim much of the revenue it looses constantly out to to people getting old stuff instead of new stuff. This will get people getting new stuff and with an 2.5 f stop engraved in 60s typeface designed by Austen Powers smarter brother.. The new Summilux ASPH has an complex internal focusing mechanism which comes into play for close focusing and who knows what else but two Luggers have gotten copies which they could barely turn with a monkey wrench and I felt one and it was darned stiff. I'd want to be using rubber gloves when I used one. With titanium inserts. They're great for twisting things. I wear them on the subway no one messes with me. Either my yellow ones or my pink ones. Who needs Karate? Or a guv? Mark William Rabiner Harlem, NY rabinergroup.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information