[Leica] OT Gotta Rant

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Hi Herb,
Lens caps are a pain in the butt!  I buy a new lens the first thing I put in 
the cupboard out of the way is the lens cap!

My Noctilux hasn't had a lens cap on it since it was purchased and that had 
to be around 1970/ 71?  It hasn't had a lens shade on it since 1980 when one 
of the pins in the lens fell out and the shade couldn't lock onto the lens. 
I asked Leica Canada at the time about putting a new pin in the outer ring 
of the lens and it was going to cost a fortune.

So did my usual KISS treatment and took the other pin out so it wouldn't 
keep catching in my camera bag. :-) So the Noctilux has travelled the world 
and back a few times with neither a lens cap nor lens hood! :-) And the 
glass is as good as the day the lens was made! :-)

cheers,
ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:33 PM
Subject: [Leica] OT Gotta Rant


> 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.
>
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