Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Shrunken 24/21 Hood Covers
From: "Andrew Moore" <moore@rscs.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:41:11 -0500

> > My 21 asph hood cover also doesn't cover the hood properly.  I just
looked
> > at it, dumbfounded, for about an hour.   I was going to send it back to
the
> > head hood honcho, but I stuck a number 15 scalpel blade on a number 4
> > Aesculap handle and trimmed it progressively 'till it fit.

I used to have this lens and its hood cover had the same problem.
My solution was to put a rubber band around the lens barrel and
hook part of the band over one of the upper corners of the hood/shade.