Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting. I have an old beat on XOONS for my Summarit and I think the brassing crinkle finished funkiness of the hood and the classic looks of the lens in combination with a chrome M3 or .85M6 has become nearly transparent in the hand as people become more conditioned to associate smooth clean black items as cameras to be taken seriously. Guy Washburn >Henrik Williams wrote: >> >> Could anyone suggest an alternative to bying an original hood for a (screw) >> Summarit? >> > >It's probably not much help since they're rarer than the original but I >use a 3rd party lens hood for the Summarit made by Walz (from the late >50s I presume)...It's >much more discreet than the original which, >lets face it, should have a guy with a red flag walking in front of it! But not so effective I presume. > >Stephen Holloway stephen, my summarit hood did in fact come with the man waving a red flag. each time i mount the hood on the lens, the man gets out his red flag and walks in front of me in the street, waving the red flag and shouting: "STAND BACK! LEICA USER APPROACHING!! BACK, I SAY!!!" the passers-by all respectfully step aside, at which point i take the discreet, spontaneous pictures the leica is famous for.