Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] M8 magenta problems - Leica offer a solution
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Nov 9 15:10:15 2006
References: <004a01c70445$b22c9830$6401a8c0@FrankDell2>

At 1:26 PM -0800 11/9/06, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Tipoff.....  The EL Nikkor enlarging lenses are reputed to have 
>better UV ( actually blue) light handling capability than almost any
>current lens out there... and they are cheap.  The best ones are 
>said to be the ones that have the letter  "A" on them.....try a 80,
>135 , 150  or 105 on a bellows for focusing.
>
>Look for " 135 El Nikkor A " for a really cheap lens.....
>
>Leica content?  They are all in LTM.  Break out that Visoflex.......
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net

Thanks. I have at least one El Nikkor lying around (an 80, I think) 
so I might try that when next I can corral an M8.
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