Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: 35/1.4 ASPH hood
From: Lucien <director@ubi.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:17:09 +0100

Neil Frankish wrote:
> 
> >From listening to all the discussions on this, I  can't recognise the hood
> on my own 35 1.4 ASPH. Compared to my 28 2.8 and pictures of the 35 2 ASPH,
> my hood is very primative - there is no ring to turn - it pushes on and
> clicks - depress  cut-out sections to pull it off. The hood cover is of the
> same thin plastic - unclip the bottom and slide the cover upwards off the
> hood - at can't fall off. A different version?

Neil,

Yes, the first months of production version.
The ring was added later because the first version was so loose.

Lucien