Re: 35mm lenses compared?

["Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>]

On 16 May 97,  O.J. Anshus <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>  
wrote:

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I sure agree with you on the sunshade, Otto. My new model ASPH came 
with the new style shade and I share your distaste for it. The cut 
out is rather a joke, to me at least, since the framework of the 
cutout still shows in the viewfinder and only reduces the problem 
slightly. I think that most M shooters have become accustomed to 
seeing part of most lenses and hoods in the finder and learn to 
ignore it. 

I may look around for a plain old rubber screw in type shade, sized 
such that vignetting is not a problem.

The low coma and flare compared to the 35/2 M Summicron was my reason 
for buying it and I'm delighted with it in those areas.

> However, I am not happy at all with the sun shade. The one which
> came with the lens keeps getting dislocated if I bump into it or
> lift the lens by it (I still have the Leica literature bragging
> about the new lens shade, and that the lens could be lifted securely
> by grabbing just the sun shade. This was pure nonsense, and Leica
> has produced a replacement sun shade). Therefore, I got the new lens
> shade with a locking collar (I also had to pay alost $100 to finance
> Leicas failure to produce a functional sun shade the first time).
> The new lens shade has a big locking collar ending up close to the
> aperature ring when the sun shade is mounted. It is big, ugly, and
> more importantly prevents you from using the aperature ring easily.
> With gloves you can forget about controlling the aperature securely.
> Why oh why didn't Leica just modify the sun shade of the original
> aspherical 35 (with 2 aspherical surfaces) instead of selling me two
> half done sun shade projects? 
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