Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I concur. That's why I suggested the 12504 round hood over the 12585/12538. The 12504 is shallower and is the one to use if one wants a round hood. Otherwise the standard hood for the pre-ASPH 35/2.0 is the square 12524 hood. Joseph on 1/4/05 4:13 am, Meino de Graaf at meino@innerside.demon.nl wrote: > The last pre-asph version of the 35mm summicron has a different hood. I > have a hood 12585H which came with an 35mm summicron with goggles. In > shape and size it's equal to the later 12538 plastic hood. When I bought > in 1985 a new 35mm summicron (which is now known as the last pre-asph > version) it came with the smaller, square hood nr 12524. Both older > hoods (12585 and 12538) fit this summicron. However they vignet the > image, so are not usable with this 35mm summicron. This I found out the > hard way by using my older metal hood instead of the hood (12524) that > came with this summicron.