[Leica] Watch your finger tab on your 35mm Summicron

[vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)]

Watch your finger tab on your 35mm Summicron.

My wife shows me a piece of plastic that she found on the car seat.  It 
looks suspiciously like half of the half-moon finger tab of a 35mm 
Summicron.  I had this lens out a few days ago.

I go home, and sure enough, half the tab is still on the lens and the 
other half is in my hand.

This piece is plastic, and it broke in half, right where the mounting 
screw is.

I've replaced this part on another lens, a 50mm Elcan f2, where it was 
completely missing.

I think this is an example of Leitz's choice of plastic, which may have 
been a great idea in the 80's, but now thirty years later, is turning 
out to be a terrible idea.


...Vick