Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Specks in new Leica Lens
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 17:19:59 -0500

Dr. Joseph Yao jotted down the following:

> I have just received a shipment of Noctilux today and they all have the
> 'Test Certificate'.  One of the lenses has a small but very noticeable
> coating defect on the rear element.  So much for that meticulously
> examination!

They've just been bought by Hermés: they probably spend more time
meticulously examining the test certificate to make sure it's absolutely
flawless than they do the actual lens! ;)

M.

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