Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/04

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Subject: Re: IROOA lens hood & DR Summicron
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 14:23:30 -0400

At 05:48 PM 5/3/97 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote:
>I just bought myself a DR Summicron for my M6.  Accompanying the lens was a
>IROOA lens hood which seems to differ somewhat in appearance to a diagram I
>see in the Leica Accessory Guide (Hove books).  The diagram shows a hood
>with a bit more depth to it than the one I have.  Mine has what looks like a
>functionaless black metal retaining ring screwed into the forn of it.  The
>way mine appears on the lens, it doesn't seem to offer much in the way of
>'shading'.  Is there a missing component?   By the way, the hood is marked
>"Summaron 3.5 cm Summicron 5 cm"

This isn't an IROOA/12571 at all:  it's an ITDOO, the earlier incarnation.

Marc


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