Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 85mm f2 Russian now a question of Thorium glass
From: Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:51:54 -0600
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>Neal,
>I have one of these in LTM and it is stunningly good.  However, it
>exhibits all the attributes of radioactive glass as it is quite yellow,
>to the point that you can not shoot color film unless you want a nice
>yellow tone.


Yellow can also be caused by the balsam glue used to cement elements 
together just getting old. It happens in a lot of RF viewfinders. 
Pain in the neck stuff to get off and get cemented again.

Karen

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In reply to: Message from "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> (RE: [Leica] 85mm f2 Russian now a question of Thorium glass)