Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 39mm non-leica filters
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:41:39 -0400
References: <B78C3153.139B7%jbcollier@powersurfr.com>

At 11:07 PM 7/31/01 +0200, Matthias Nickel wrote:
>However, the answers that I got, didn't help me at all: apparently I didn't
>explain the problem well enough. I recently went to some of the local photo
>dealers to get UVa filter for my 1:2/35 Summicron (with eyes) and 1:4/90
Elmar
>(the one you pull out). They all had both regular 39 mm and 40.5 mm UVa's in
>stock. The 40.5 was definitely too big, while the 39 mm filter was just
fragments
>of one mm too small to fit - it just fell off. I then checked directly
with Hama
>here in Germany, and they told me that  Leica 39 is different from regular
39.
>Alas, they don't make the filters I need anymore, so hence my question
regarding
>other manufacturers.....!

I use regular, off-the-shelf, Heliopan and B+W 39mm filters on my 4/90
collapsible Elmar, Matthias.  I suspect Hama was "spinning" you a bit.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

In reply to: Message from John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com> (Re: [Leica] 39mm non-leica filters)