Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 16:02 02/07/97 -0400, you wrote: >The collapsible rubber hood on the 2.8/90 thin Tele-Elmar takes a 11252 >snap-in lens cap, readily available for a pittance from Leica. Why this >would be an issue escapes me. >The lens hood takes Series 5.5 filters, which, again, are readily >available. Further, the collapsible rubber cap can be used with E39 >filters as well. >Marc I got this info from calls to two Leica dealers in the UK last year- both sources said the caps that went with those rubber hoods weren't available any longer and used ones were "like gold dust". Maybe I should only believe what I read here! As for the decision to use series 5.5 filters in that hood- which are almost the same size as 39mm, which the lens itself takes- not my idea of good design. Joe Berenbaum