[Leica] Old Leica lenses

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

I always have the giant blunderbuss lens hood on my Summarit (the one
Stephen sells) to avoid the flare problem. I think you'll see a big
improvement after the cleaning. I believe that the lubricants used during
that era of Leica production tended to evaporate and leave a film on inner
surfaces.

Jeffery

On Jan 10, 2008 12:16 PM, Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>
> This Summarit has some haze inside. But I think most of the low
> contrast is caused by flare. The sun was just above and just to the
> right of the lenses view. I have four Leica lenses I plan to send to
> John to get cleaned up. All LTM, all 50's, and all have some degree
> of haze. I'm taking quite a few photos with all four of them before I
> do. I have an uncoated Xenon with nearly perfect glass, no haze, that
> has better contrast then the Summarit.
>
> Len
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> > I have never gotten *that* low of contrast with the 50/1.5
> > Summarit. Is
> > there any cloudiness in the lens? When I bought mine about 7 years
> > ago, it
> > had really never been used and had received very good care
> > (climate-controlled house of a relatively wealthy, clean man), the
> > in the
> > inside elements had terrible fungus. John Van Stelten cleaned it
> > up, and it
> > is pretty much on a par with normal lenses, even wide open, when it
> > comes to
> > contrast.
> >
> > Jeffery L. Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> >
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Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA