Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guy Bennett wrote: > p.s. a quick leica question: could a tiny scratch on the inner glass > surface of a filter (an a36 orange clamp-on filter to be used on an 3.5 elmar 50) effect picture quality? the one i just bought on ebay - announced with "perfect" glass - has a tiny scratch and i'm wondering if i should send it back or just live with it.>>>>> G'day Guy, Two things here. If e-bay gave it 100% perfect and it isn't, I'd want compensation or return for a refund. Or if this is merely a very light surface scratch only seen when looking along the surface, but not when looking through the filter, I'd forget it. Put it on the camera and burn film, you are not going to see anything. Period. Period. Period!!! Example: I was dumb enough to work too close to an arc welder one time, "Hey close is better, right?" Using an R28 2.8 on an R4 when a spark of slag landed right on the lens, burned a zit in the glass surface. Talk about PANIC!!!! Well nothing happened, you couldn't see anything on Kodachromes, B&W or colour neg films, even stopped down to f.16. So you are not going to see a scratch on the filter. It's an ethical selling point here, if you feel the scratch is big enough to have been seen without any turning and angling to the light, then it would be fair to ask for a cut in the cost if you really need the filter. Or send it back simply because it was sold under false advertising. Your call. ted