Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] Another 50 for the Jeffster
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu Mar 30 22:15:15 2006
References: <9b678e0603291710tb5fc6c1t281e18eab13701e6@mail.gmail.com> <000201c6539b$2c5a9cd0$656c0e44@newukolbqveo9i>
 
On 3/30/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> John van Stelten is getting ready to polish, clean, uncement, cement, and
> coat a nice Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5 LTM lens for me. Wish me luck. I have a
> 50/1.5 in Contax mount, but my Contax is not terribly light-tight, and I've
> never been able to give that lens a good workout.

Wish we lived closer. I could help you out so that your body didn't
let the darkness leak out.

http://www3.telus.net/public/rpnchbck/fixing%20light%20leaks.html

Take some black plastic from a thick trash bag or the inside sack
holding photographic paper and cut it up to cover the top. That will
work wonders.

Daniel

> Any of you have experience with the 50/1.5 Sonnar?
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] Re:New Orleans photos--no\w Jeffery 50's)
Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Another 50 for the Jeffster)