Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] junky hood
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Jan 26 07:29:24 2006

What are these "lens caps" you write about, and what are they used for? Are
they little hats with pictures of lenses on them, or do your lenses wear
clothing? ;-)


On 1/26/06 10:07 AM, "John Collier" <jbcollier@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Which version? The third version's hood is not bad as long as you get
> the later one with the viewfinder portal.
> 
> I find most Leica lens caps a little lacking in tenacity. I use the
> old Canon caps for my Leica E55 lenses. They only come off when you
> take them off. The Leica A42 slip-on caps are fine. I haven't found a
> great replacement for the E46 cap on a 35/1.4A. While the Leica E46
> cap works well on the 50/1.4A, it significantly overhangs the front
> of a 35/1.4A. The Contact G series E46 cap is only marginally better
> in that it doesn't overhang but it is still willing to let go at the
> least provocation. Some of the new "Zeiss" M lenses use E46 filters
> but their caps look like Vivitar rejects. Still worth a look I suppose.
> 
> John Collier
> 
> On 25-Jan-06, at 9:08 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
> 
>> Is the rectangular hood for the Elmarit 28mm the worst piece of
>> crap Leica sold for the M?
> 
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