Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] lens caps
From: "Frank Farmer"<frankandaubrey@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:46:22 -0500

John, 

Thanks for the tip.  Coming across an old Pentax cap seems much more likely
around my part of the world than running across ANY Leica cap - let alone the
proper one.  :-(.  No Leica dealers 'round here - at least none with any sort
of stock.  That's life I suppose. ;-).

Frank

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:16:04 -0700 John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> wrote:

> No.
> 
> The Leica ones have special weak springs that
> help them to fall off 
> when you are not looking. They also have an
> extra wide rim so that it 
> is easy for them to catch on the least little
> thing.
> 
> I replaced all my Leica caps with ones from
> Canon, Nikon and Tamron. No 
> problems after that. Pentax for one uses E49
> caps so try one of theirs. 
> Old Canon FD lenses have the best caps with
> very strong springs.
> 
> John Collier
> 
> On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 10:29 AM,
> Frank Farmer wrote:
> 
> >   I suppose any 49mm cap would do - right?
> 
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