Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Everyone has to rant sometime. When I bought a 35mm Summicron from KEH, it include a hood and plastic cap. The cap shortly afterward wound up on the floor of a bus in Toronto. I asked on the LUG if anyone had one to sell, and to my utter amazement, a letter from Burna arrived weeks later with this piece of plastic within. I resolved to be very very careful with the new one, but in time, it too vanished. I dropped in at Keeble and Schuchat to see if one could be ordered from Leica, and the salesman just pulled one out of a drawer and produced it for some price north of $30, close to $35 with tax included. Cheez! That for a crummy hunk of flexible plastic! So, I resolved to be very very very careful now. Every time I got into or out of my car, I'd feel to be sure it was still there. So, I park my car on the dirt at the side of Alpine Road, walk a couple of tenths of a mile down a bike trail--no woods, no underbrush, just a simple trail--realize that I'm on the wrong trail, turn back to my car, feel before entering the car and find that the hood cap is GONE. Move the car, check the ground where and around where it had been. No cap! Sure as hell ain't gonna pay over $30 again. Just gonna carry the standard lens cap in my pocket, and if I get into an environment where I feel the open hood is not sufficient protection, I'll just put the hood in my pocket and put the standard lens cap on. Grrrrr! Herb -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.