Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All of this angst over oil on the blades? You can bet that the lubrication used inside the lens is non-volatile. Why you ask? Because it's inside the lens and it doesn't matter whether you can see it on the aperture or it is hidden at the hinge points, the lubricant is still inside the lens. If this was the lens I had thoughts about then you got a really good price on an amazingly good lens. Shoot a controlled roll of film, if the lens delivers as it should then enjoy many years of biting sharp no flare images. As to KEH, they have always tended to grade conservatively on cosmetics. I know many of their people and they really do try to parse the equipment fairly within their categories. My issues last year were through their inability to find someone who could fix a Contax II, and they willingly did the right thing. Look at the bright side, in ten or twelve years, you can have the lens CLA'd in Solms and it will be like new for an additional $200 or so: and you still would have paid much less than new. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html