Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/24

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Subject: [Leica] New Summilux-M 35/1.4 ASPH. #11663
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:14:37 +0930
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> Do these have the same vulnerable outside threads that the Tri-Elmar 
> 16-18-21mm has? ?Is there some kind of cover that >protects the threads 
> when the hood is off (the Tri-Elmar uses the hood for that purpose)? ?Of 
> course, the idea may be to leave >it permanently mounted (which is curious 
> - I never get flare with my current ASPH, using no hood).

Yes and yes.

Mine flares very readily.  I wondered if something was wrong with it,
so I sent it to Leica who said it was within spec.  Mine is chrome and
maybe something internally isn't as well blacked out as it should be.

Marty


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