Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd bet that some lenses have been shaken so much that they do rattle, whereas before they did not. Marty On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Nor does my new Summilux 35 FLE. This became a mini-frenzy on the L Camera > Forum. Once someone mentioned it, it sparked a spate of previously happy > but > now worried lens owners shaking their lenses like castanets until they > convinced themselves that their lenses were about to explode into their > constituent parts. Leica camera examined a least a couple that were sent > for > terminal rattleitis and pronounced them normal. It is the aperture > mechanism > shifting a tiny amount fore and aft within its location. Not every lens > does > it. FWIW, in the spirit of scientific enquiry, I castaneted every lens I > own > and none of them tinkle, rattle or explode. > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 22 January 2011 00:39, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > >> The one I just sold did not rattle, neither did the other one I had >> years ago, nor the aspherical I had. >> >> Marty >> >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:31 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at >> sfr.fr> >> wrote: >> > Might it be the OIS that you hear? >> > Ph >> > >> > Le 21 janv. 11 ? 14:17, Vick Ko a ?crit : >> > >> >> >> >> My 35 ASPH Summilux rattles. >> >> >> >> Apparently it is the iris blades, or ring, that rattles. ?Goes away at >> >> f16, but who shoots this lens at f/16? >> >> >> >> Does yours rattle? >> >> >> >> Apparently the new FLE 35 Summilux rattles too. ?Is that true? >> >> >> >> Vick >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information