Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/01
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>Is this grease problem an urban myth, or does anyone have positive
>proof of it aflicting lenses? Please no "my best friend's golf buddy
>once knew this photographer" stories. Thanks.
The grease was whale oil. Don Chatterton, a well-known Leica dealer, has
seen the hazing due to whale oil in a lot of tele-elmarits (according to
our phone conversation). If the lens has no hazing, however, there's
nothing to do but use it. Maybe you'll drop it in the ocean before the
hazing appears. Maybe it will never appear.
Happy shooting.
- -Charlie
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Charles E. Dunlap
Earth Sciences Department
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel.: (408) 459-5228 Fax.: (408) 459-3074
mailto:cdunlap@es.ucsc.edu
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