Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] glasses and bezel?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:45:34 -0500

At 09:07 AM 11/10/1999 EST, Ruralmopics@aol.com wrote:
>Cameras 
>scratch eyeglasses. That's one of those rules of life you can rank up there 
>with "heated things are hot."

Well, no.  I use glass lenses in my glasses, and I have a worse
prescription than the most of you guys do.  I would rather deal with heavy
glass lenses which will NOT scratch rather than cheap-ass plastic lenses
which I will scratch the first time I lay them down.  The weight is worth
it -- and I don't have to worry about my Leicas scratching them, either!

My optometrist, on my last visit, told me about this spectacular new,
non-scratch plastic.  Handed me a sample, and some steel wool, and
challenged me to test it myself.  I must be unduly harsh on plastic lenses:
 I immediately scratched it to hell.  My optometrist retired six months
later.  I liked him:  I hope I wasn't the cause!

Marc

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