Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Re: 35/1.4 ASPH lense shade...is this thing a joke? NO!
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:48:51 -0500

>> I like my 35/1.4 ASPH shade set-up better than my 24/2.8 ASPH shade
>> set-up.

>I have to say that there is one continuing minor annoyance I've
>experienced with that 24/2.8 ASPH shade: the soft rubber over-shade
>cap never seems to pull down quite far enough for the little
>protrusion at the inside bottom to seat past the bottom of the shade;
>instead the protrusion seems to come just about level with the bottom
>lip of the shade and but up against it.  Kind of like a sock that's
>shrunk in the wash.  Trivial, but unnecessarily wrong.

>Does everybody's do this, or just mine?

[Austin] Mine does the exact same thing, so I just use a filter to protect my 24 ;-)

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