Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]C'mon guys. It was a $300 lens. I made $1.50 an hour in graduate school doing Cibachrome processing. That's a lot of hours doing Cibachrome to get that lens. Putting a UV filter on a Nikon SLR lens ain't THAT bad. Jeffery On Feb 26, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> I used filters a lot when I was a starving graduate student who >>> couldn't bear the idea of getting a scratch on a 35/2 Nikkor. If I >>> had a Noctilux as a starving graduate student, I don't know that I >>> would ever take it out of the house. I think it comes down to a >>> question of how badly one would be crushed by damaging the lens (and >>> that speaks to one's income). >> >> >> Sounds kinda' like buying a race car but never racing it. >> From a former starving student because I bought Leicas instead of food, >> Gary Todoroff > > > Or buying an expensive luxurious sofa and putting those plastic see through > covers on them. So in the summer your sweaty thighs stick to them. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information