Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 00:01 30-10-97 -0800, you wrote: >Subject: Re: Cap for Hood-35mm Summicron > >At 19:37 29/10/97 PST, you wrote: >>Maybe I missed it? Did anyone reply to the message about ingenious ideas >>for a cap for the pre asph 35mm f2m. (and for the 28mm hood as well)? >> >>Sure would be useful if anyone has figured one out. >> >>Tim Atherton, > >I'm not sure, I may have dreamt this, but I have the vague recollection of >someone saying that the hood with fitting cap that comes with the 35mm >Summicron Aspherical can also be used on the pre-Asph 35mm Summicron. >Can anyone substantiate that? I'd like to know myself. If this is the case, I'd like to have this hood + cap! >The current 28mm M lens (46mm thread) has a hood that has a fitting cap. >I've recently changed from the type 3 to the current one and this makes a >big difference to using the lens. They should have thought of this years ago. A few years ago I asked a representative of the Dutch Leica importer the same question. He said there were no such caps, and as far as he knew no plans to produce these caps.