Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: > > At 08:51 AM 8/14/1999 -0500, Alan Brown wrote: > >Or is there another option to > >keeping my glasses from getting scratched? > > > > Glass lenses. Avoid plastic lenses at all costs -- even the new > "Scratch-Proof" plastics cannot compete with glass. > > Besides, most glass lenses are made by Corning or Zeiss, I believe. > Rodenstock is a big player in plastic lenses, but I am not certain who else > makes them. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! We had a fellow on the list by the name of Zeissler (Mitch?) who told me he had Zeiss glass put in his frames. Impressed the heck out of me but as I thought they were more hard to get. When I go to the glasses store I say "No I'm a photographer" when they try to sell me on plastic. I explain to them that us photographers are very aware of the differences between plastic and glass and would not dream of looking through plastic all day. That never works. So I tell them I am very hard on my lenses. That doesn't work either. So I tell them to just give me the damn glass anyway I don't care if you have to go to some weird lab you have less of a great deal going with. Mark Rabiner