Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]nathan, the hoods are very bulky for this and the 50mm lens (same hood), skip it. i bought it and i only used it once, it is a screw on big hood, On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>wrote: > ...is a new 35mm Summarit, just arrived yesterday from Australia. The lens > feels very good, every bit as solid as the Summicrons etc. Now I am just > missing one tiny bit of kit to be able to actually take pictures with it > ;-) > > One peeve, however, is that the lens hood is not built in nor included with > the lens--you have to buy it separately. I think it is a bit cheesy, not so > much because of the money, but because of the hassle of having to hunt > around for it on the web. I live in the Third World as far as Leica is > concerned: the nearest Leica dealer is in Valencia, 180 km away, and the > nearest good dealers are in Barcelona (550 km) or Madrid (430 km). Even > then, I am not sure if they would have that particular item in stock, so I > just ordered it from B&H. But in the end I would rather pay a bit more for > the lens and have the hood included. > > Well, I guess I should not complain too much, given that I paid $1414 for > the lens--but those were Australian dollars :-) > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad