Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd look for a repair person (Sherry, DAG, you have a lot of choices in the US) and have them cleaned up. I did that with an Elmar (screw mount 50/2.8) and the difference is definitely worth the price. I had it done over here (Sweden) so I can't give you any good idea of what it would cost, but I expect you're looking at 100 USD per lens. Daniel On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> wrote: > I am running into a streak of bad luck with my 50/2 rigid Summicrons. > > First, I find my old DR Summicron has coating degradation - a light > fuzziness on the front coating I look closely at it. > > Then I check a 50/2 rigid chrome lens - it has the coating degradation but > to a lesser degree. Then looking inside, it has concentric rings of some > haze. It doesn't look like the rainbow rings of doublet separation. They > look literally like large concentric rings of haze. Have you heard of this > "rings" phenomena? > > Both might be destined to the "bay "as is" sales category. :-( > > That or they are my "extra glow" 50/2's. > > Vick > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >