Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] M summicron 35/2 hood
From: joseph at yao.com (Joseph Yao)
Date: Fri Apr 1 00:01:07 2005

I concur.  That's why I suggested the 12504 round hood over the 12585/12538.
The 12504 is shallower and is the one to use if one wants a round hood.
Otherwise the standard hood for the pre-ASPH 35/2.0 is the square 12524
hood.

Joseph


on 1/4/05 4:13 am, Meino de Graaf at meino@innerside.demon.nl wrote:

> The last pre-asph version of the 35mm summicron has a different hood. I
> have a hood 12585H which came with an 35mm summicron with goggles. In
> shape and size it's equal to the later 12538 plastic hood. When I bought
> in 1985 a new 35mm summicron (which is now known as the last pre-asph
> version) it came with the smaller, square hood nr 12524. Both older
> hoods (12585 and 12538) fit this summicron. However they vignet the
> image, so are not usable with this 35mm summicron. This I found out the
> hard way by using my older metal hood instead of the hood (12524) that
> came with this summicron.


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