Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] lens caps-The Last Word
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:19:40 -0800 (PST)

Whew !!!!
I roughly counted this "Leica Lens Cap" thread
generated close to 30 responses ... and we still worry
about the demise of Leica ?

- --- Jeffrey Fass <happy.eyeball@verizon.net> wrote:
> Actaully, his caps are very good. He made me a pair
> for my 12" Ektar. Just
> right.
> 
> JDF
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] lens caps-The Last Word
> 
> 
> > http://www.skgrimes.com/caps/index.htm
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>
> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] lens caps
> >
> >
> > > Is it true that Leica will begin January 1, 2003
> engraving serial
> numbers
> > in
> > > lens caps?
> > >
> > > Roland Smith
> > > Oakland, California
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> > > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:55 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] lens caps
> > >
> > >
> > > > Don Dory asked:
> > > > > Wasn't it Ted just a few days ago advising
> us to quote an outrageous
> > > price
> > > > > for photographing an event and then not
> blinking?  So what is wrong
> > with
> > > > > Leica doing the same?<<<
> > > >
> > > > Actually I don't have a problem with the cost
> of the caps, shades and
> > > other
> > > > ancillary bits and pieces.... I don't buy them
> and that solves the
> price
> > > > whine factor! ;-)
> > > >
> > > > It appears there have been a number of options
> offered for other
> > > suppliers,
> > > > so what's the problem? If enough people
> weren't stupid enough to pay
> the
> > > > Leica prices for the bits and pieces, do you
> not think the prices
> would
> > > come
> > > > down to a common sense level?
> > > >
> > > > What happens is, too many people stay all
> hully gully twitch assed
> about
> > > > having the perfect leica look and will put out
> for the outrages
> prices.
> > > > Rather than what I did when I found out the
> lens shade for the 35 1.4
> > > > Summilux was $90. bucks plus. I just screwed
> off the front portion and
> > > threw
> > > > it away as it was the only part kind of banged
> up. How about 20 years
> > plus
> > > > ago and the original back half of the shade is
> still on the lens and
> > > appears
> > > > to work fine.
> > > >
> > > > And how about the Noctilux where the two
> little pins that held the
> lens
> > > > shade in place finally fell out.... 30 years
> ago? and there hasn't
> been
> > a
> > > > lens shade on the Noctilux since. Hell it was
> going to cost some
> > > > astronomical price to replace the pins alone
> and I'd still have a kind
> > of
> > > > screwed-up lens shade that would eventually
> break off the pins again.
> > > >
> > > > Do my pictures look any worse for the wear? 
> Nope! Have I endangered
> the
> > > > lens because I've not had a lens shade? Sure
> maybe, sometimes, but as
> > long
> > > > as I didn't think or worry about it, it didn't
> matter!
> > > >
> > > > See how easy life is when you don't get
> wrapped up in all this lens
> > shade
> > > > and caps crap. Forget it or use something
> else.
> > > > I mean if you're desperate, use plastic Saran
> wrap when you put the
> lens
> > > in
> > > > your bag.! Cheap and disposable!
> > > > ted
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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