I knew I loved my leather-clad Ultravid BLs for a reason...
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Leica California Cancer disclaimer (1 Viewer)
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Mark9473
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If you google "hazardous chemicals used in leather industry" you may change your mind. ;-)
My Foton leather clad binoculars are still pungent almost twenty years from new.
A Chinese camera case from a camera I got maybe 20 years ago was so awful, I had to throw it in the trash can immediately. It was the worst smelling optics related thing I have ever met.
The very large British 6 inch survey lens, and I mean large, cost about £85,000 to make decades ago. I paid £60 secondhand. Maybe Ross/Williamson the maker.
The lined register plate cost thousands also.
It had a lot of thorium in it.
I kept well away from it.
A Chinese camera case from a camera I got maybe 20 years ago was so awful, I had to throw it in the trash can immediately. It was the worst smelling optics related thing I have ever met.
The very large British 6 inch survey lens, and I mean large, cost about £85,000 to make decades ago. I paid £60 secondhand. Maybe Ross/Williamson the maker.
The lined register plate cost thousands also.
It had a lot of thorium in it.
I kept well away from it.
One of those stickers came with my Swaro ATX 1.7x extender. I think it referenced the ink used on the box.
dantheman
Bah humbug
I was wondering whether the stickers may need a warning label.
Elmer Fudd
Well-known member
Sometimes California, based on Peoples Republic of China, is called PCR - Peoples Republic of California.
WJC
Well-known member
Saliva causes cancer when swallowed in small doses over a long period of time—at least in California—which is why we rarely see people over 120 years of age. :cat:
