Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]SNIP -- Marc James Small wrote: > This is the clip-on lens hood for the next-to-latest version of the >2/50 Summicron -- same optical formula, but without the inbuilt lens hood, Leica 11819. > The hood is a cheap and junky affair which even I, who forgive Leica >most errors, found absolutely abyssmal. Marc, I agree. Lens shade 12538 is a flexible flyer, in that the hard plastic ring distorts when you depress the clips to put it on or off the lens -- and in doing so the clips mar the outer lens ring. This lens shade sits next to my computer, waiting for me to type up a "For Sale -- Cheap" ad for the Leica Catalog. For someone who never removes the 12538 lens shade from the lens, or never reverses it on the lens for storage, or never takes it off to place a lens cap on the f2/50, this particular lens shade will be a good buy. Bill Caldwell