Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] could it be a defective lens?
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Mar 27 14:25:06 2008
References: <aed41d690803261621j60895984g2e9479bbc7ba79f@mail.gmail.com> <C4108CEC.9A616%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Ah. I vaguely recall someone saying that whale oil is used to
lubricate the movements of watches, but that might just be elitist
talk.

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> > What the hell is wale blubber?
>  > ===============================
>  > And yes I know your more likely to get clean LTM Nikon glass than Leica
>  > glass. Because of the wale blubber.
>  >
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>  Whale Blubber.
>  A LUG myth I think it was disproved. Not sure.
>  Maybe the fact that it was disproved was disproved.
>  But we used to think or maybe we still do that Leica used some lubricant
>  from whales (the big ones in the ocean) on all their early glass and it 
> just
>  didn't work out. For what ever reason Canon or Nikon glass is always a ton
>  cleaner than Leitz glass from the 30s and 40s I think is a going fact.
>
>  That's the problem with experimental lubricants.
>  Sometimes they just don't work out.
>  Like with the Zeiss Contarex plagued with wield lubricants which turn into
>  glue or crystallize.
>
>  I think some one got on and said the blubber thing was not true.
>  Like Ernst Leitz's dog being named Hector.
>  People just make stuff up.
>  I'm all for it!
>
>  I think on the Leica website they call it "Leica culture".
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>  Mark William Rabiner
>  markrabiner.com
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-- 
Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA

Replies: Reply from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] could it be a defective lens?)
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