Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01BE24FD.7A1D02C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ted Grant notes that: And paying for and using Leica glass with bubbles is no big deal! I = would venture to say there are multi thousands of Leica lenses about the world with bubbles! I can recall talking to old-timers (or experienced photographers, if you = prefer) who felt that bubbles were a mark of quality. They were never = concerned about the performance of the affected lens. One fellow used to = point out the bubble in his view camera lens with apparent pride. It = does seem, based on visual inspection, that a bubble would have a bad = effect on a lenses' quality, but the experts agree that bubbles do very = little harm. SIncerely, Joe Stephenson - ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01BE24FD.7A1D02C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>Ted Grant notes that:</DIV> <DIV>And paying for and using Leica glass with bubbles is no big deal! I = would<BR>venture to say there are multi thousands of Leica lenses about = the=20 world<BR>with bubbles! </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can recall talking to old-timers (or experienced photographers, = if you=20 prefer) who felt that bubbles were a mark of quality. They were never = concerned=20 about the performance of the affected lens. One fellow used to point out = the=20 bubble in his view camera lens with apparent pride. It does seem, based = on=20 visual inspection, that a bubble would have a bad effect on a lenses' = quality,=20 but the experts agree that bubbles do very little harm.</DIV> <DIV>SIncerely, </DIV> <DIV>Joe Stephenson<BR> </DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_004A_01BE24FD.7A1D02C0--