[Leica] Watch your finger tab on your 35mm Summicron

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

I think that we all had terrible ideas thirty years or so back. Including
the one where we won't get old.

Cheers
Geoff

*Colour still has an M in it.*
*NO ARCHIVE*



On 9 September 2011 03:41, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Watch your finger tab on your 35mm Summicron.
>
> My wife shows me a piece of plastic that she found on the car seat.  It
> looks suspiciously like half of the half-moon finger tab of a 35mm
> Summicron.  I had this lens out a few days ago.
>
> I go home, and sure enough, half the tab is still on the lens and the other
> half is in my hand.
>
> This piece is plastic, and it broke in half, right where the mounting screw
> is.
>
> I've replaced this part on another lens, a 50mm Elcan f2, where it was
> completely missing.
>
> I think this is an example of Leitz's choice of plastic, which may have
> been a great idea in the 80's, but now thirty years later, is turning out 
> to
> be a terrible idea.
>
>
> ...Vick
>
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