Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:29 PM 3/23/97 -0600, Neal wrote: >novice leica question for you experts- today at a camera show, a former >leica technical employee (now in business repairing leica's[not that many >need repairing I'm sure]) told me to beware of the subject lens as they >were notorious for having bad glue joints between the elements. the >particular lens I was looking at was a Canada lens serial number 2727106. Well, both the five-element and four-element versions of the Tele-Elmarit - -- and the four-element Elmarit -- lack glued elements, so I suspect your acquaintance is another one of those mythopoetic sorts who tend to congregate at camera shows. The five-element Elmarit DID have two glued elements, but I certainly have never heard a tale of 'bad glue joints'. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!