Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DT, Laney writes that the old style A36 filter mount lens was dropped in '56 in favour of the new non-rotating mount with the E39 filter mount. Of course there are always anomolies... And my father once purchase a battered version of this (older) lens where the front 'filter rim' had been filed off! I wonder if he's now sold that lens on? Jem - -----Original Message----- From: InfinityDT@aol.com [SMTP:InfinityDT@aol.com] jem.kime@cwcom.net writes: << You can buy new filters for them, 39mm size, even from Leica still. But a filter mounting ring? I'm not sure what yoean unless the front of your lens is missing... Jem >> The original poster mentioned a LTM body in another post, so perhaps his is a LTM 35 Summaron 3.5, in which case it does not have filter threads. It takes the ubiquitous 36mm clamp-on filters which are in plentiful supply on the used market. There's even a swing-out polarizer. The LTM 35 Summaron 3.5 is a neat little lens, hardly larger than a collapsed 50 3.5 Elmar LTM. The correct hood for this lens as well as the earlier 35 Elmar is "FOOKH", prized as much for the laugh quotient of the codeword as for its ability to reduce flare ; ) DT