Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/24

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Subject: [Leica] 50 mm lenses
From: lkhermann at bresnan.net (lkhermann)
Date: Wed May 24 09:53:19 2006
 
At 08:22 AM 5/24/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>Joseph Low <joelct@singnet.com.sg>
>
> >            Lee - is the one with the radioactive element?
> >
>
>I picked up one of these lenses at the last Vancouver Camera Show and it 
>dates back to the early 1950's (serial number at home, but around 
>1,000,000).
>
>The yellow glow visible in the front element is from radioactive thorium. 
>I've been meaning to shoot some slide film with it to see if the results 
>are actually visible on the slide.
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg

Greg,
         I think that I perceive a yellow glow in the print that I 
showed.  Thanks for the look and comment.
Lee
In reply to: Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] 50 mm lenses)