Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:11 PM 3/13/98 -0800, David Medley wrote: > >In Stephen Gandy's site he mentions a problem with this lens and the animal >based grease attacking the coating on the rear element. The solution is to >have the lens re-lubed with a modern synthetic grease. Has anyone had >experience with this problem. And, of all of the normal repair shops used >by LUGers is one better than another for lens repair/re-lubing? I strongly suspect this is an urban myth, but then I've only examined several dozen of these lenses over the past ten years: this may be like the mysterious 'gassing' factor which seems to happen only on the West Coast. No, I've never seen this. I have one, and have used it extensively. It is my normal 90mm lens, though I have a 4/90 collapsible for portabilty and a 2/90 for low-light. As to lens overhaul, John Van Stelten's your man: <focalpt@ecentral.com> . Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!