Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Perennial PIA
From: "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith@dcc.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 19:00:42 -0500
References: <011901c31357$2d33d540$046fa8c0@MillStone>

Ted,

Do you use a filter, or just keep the camera close to your vest? That's a 
pretty expensive cornea to scratch.

Jeffery

At 04:22 PM 5/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Lew wrote:
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> > Ok. I just managed to lose a lens cap again. Is there an inexpensive
> > source for these annoying things?<<<
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>Hi Lew,
>Yeah don't bother replacing them! ;-) Heck the only time I have a lens cap
>on any of the few lenses I have left with a cap is when the cameras are in
>the bag.... which is rarely. :-)
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>Heck I've carried and used my Noctilux nearly every week for at least 20
>years without a lens shade, let alone a lens cap. To bad about the lens
>shade, it fell apart so I threw the rest of it away. :-)
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>Lens caps are no big deal anyway and with the M camera there's a good
>possibility of inadvertently leaving it on and missing pictures.  Oh you
>haven't done that one yet? :-) Most of us have at sometime during our photo
>lives and those who haven't yet, the Great Lens Cap God will get them sooner
>or later. :-)
>
>ted
>Samples from the Women in Medicine project:
>http://www.sandycarterphotography.com/WIMcollagePage.htm
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>Ted Grant Photography Limited
>www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
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Replies: Reply from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Perennial PIA)
In reply to: Message from "Lew" <lew@clsystems.com> ([Leica] Perennial PIA)