Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The FIKUS hood is a 36 clamp-on which will not fit any Summicron lens which are all E39 threaded. The one possibility I can think of in the way of a rigid hood that *might* work on the current-version 50 Summicron, is the metal screw-on hood made for the current 50 f2.8 Elmar collapsible. It comes in silver or black (I'm not certain of the part number of the black one but my silver one is 12549) and it is E39 threaded. It is round and protrudes about as far afront of the lens as does the pull-out hood on the Summicron, but it is the same diameter as the filter rim as opposed to the pull-out Summicron hood which is a few millimetres wider. Whether or not it would vignette, I cannot say. I've never had a quarrel with the Summicron pull-out hood. To me it is much nicer than seeing the vented one protruding into the finder view (my M3-shooting colleagues note this moreso than I...I would suspect the M6HM might suffer from this affliction as well, to a lesser degree of course). Regards, Nigel On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:25:25 -0500 (EST) Michael Garmisa <elmar@webreach.com> writes: >Has anyone used this hood, I'm interested on trying to use it with the >new >50 summicron that has the built in hoood.... anyone know if it will >fit? > >-- >Michael Garmisa <elmar@webreach.com> > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]