Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/26

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: summitar filters
From: doctorc8@entertain.com (Henry Chu)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:04:21 -0600
 
>> Does anyone have a nice way to fit a UV filter on to a 50/2 Summitar?  There
>> are no threads and I hate to abrade the chrome.
>
>My Summitar does have a Leica UV filter attached to it.  It is
>obviously made just for the summitar because the markings on the
>outside of the filter exactly match the metal on the outside of the
>summitar.
>
>I don't have it in front of me, but there are threads inside the
>flange of the Summitar that the filter screws into.  I'm not sure if
>they are some kind of non standard threads, but they are there.
>Unless of course, they changed Summitars mid stream.
>
>                       --Jim Dempsey--
>                         jjd@bbn.com
>              http://frontdoor.bbn.com/users/jjd


Last week at a local camera show in Denver, I saw a dealer with a stack of
new UV filters for the Summitar in bright red boxes with gold lettering.  I
was looking for an M polarizer.  If you're interested, I could dig up the
name of the shop.

Henry