Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/13
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At 4:54 PM -0700 2/13/03, John Collier wrote:
>I do not think that Leica has them anymore. At least I remember
>several people looking for them in the last three years as Leica
>could not supply them with one. As Schneider made the lens (and even
>gave the last ones their own serial number) maybe they made the rear
>cap too (speculation alert). It is easy to make using two regular
>caps glued in unofficial ways.
>
>John Collier
>
>On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:
>
>>Had a customer asked me for a rear cap for his Super-Angulon, I would
>>have asked my tech specialist at Leica for a rear cap to fit THAT lens. I'm
>>sure we'd have had just the right item number for that product.
Nope, Leica made them (or someone else made them for Leica). The
lenses that used them were the two Super Angulon's for M's, the first
28 Elmarit, and the Hologon for Leica. There were various versions of
the cap; some were metal with a plastic insert for the lugs and some
were all plastic.
Regarding the Summilux hood (the last, 12504) it couldn't be reversed
because its most interesting feature, that it took Series VII
filters, made the usual reversing feature impossible, or rather,
impractical. This hood came out principally for the Summilux when the
early 41mm filter threads on the lens were removed.
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