Re: [Leica] lens cap

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

rp johnson wrote:
> 
> I recently acquired a CL with the 40/2 lens and shade.  The lens cap
> supplied (Leitz) is a "press-fit" and I am certain that someday when I
> remove it, it will pop out and be lost forever.  I would prefer to remove
> the lens shade and use a more traditional lens cap.
> 
> Are such items readily available?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> rp johnson

IMHO your priorities are reversed. Lens shades are important pieces of
equipment and worth intense analysis. They protect your lens quite well
and prevent mediocrity of it's image. I think the non round ones are
particularly cool.
Lens caps: traditional, Press-fit you name it are not an issue you are
going to find many people who are interested in serious image making
very distressed about. Walt or Peter Months back said "stick them under
your bed posts" I'm all for that!. 
I'm sorry if lens caps are a consequential issue to you but around here
they have become a bit of a joke topic.
When your "pop of" lens cap does you the favor of popping off you won't
have to worry about it anymore and you can just take pictures. 
If you see some stuff on the glass wipe it off. I've been dealing with
my glass that way for 33.3 years and never had a damaged surface. Wait!
Let me check my back pocket. Yep! The 40mm Carl Zeiss Tessar on my
Rollei 35 is a clean as a Cucumber! I think I'll blow on it though.
But having written this much there may be newguys searching through
their Leica source books under L for "Lens caps I have known" ready to
give you a thoughtful scholarly reply. That will show me.
My LTHO
My less then Humble opinion!
Mark Rabiner