Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/26
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and the performance is excellent.
Nick
--- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> I vaguely re-call from years ago "looking for lenses
> with bubbles" because
> they signified a better lens. So the theory was in
> those days.
>
> I had a 50 mm f1.5 on a Contax III with a bubbles in
> the glass and I don't
> re-call any kind of variations from them in the negs
> and prints.
>
> Now on a test bench I suppose given lens standards
> of today bubbles maybe a
> no-no. But at that time 50's 60's bubbles were
> supposed to signify part of
> the molten glass cooling process and a positive
> marques.
>
> ted
>
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