Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/12

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Subject: [Leica] lens caps (was: Re: Leica-Users List Digest V3 #45)
From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:19:43 +0200

At 18:51 12.05.1998 +0800, "adrian bradshaw" 
<abpeking@public.bta.net.cn> wrote:

<<< ... who got on their case about the lens hoods which 
they made for decades which would not accept lens caps?  >>>



When you look into a news photographers bag, you hardly find
any lens with lens caps, neither back nor rear. You loose too
much time with all the twistings, pressings, screwings ...
And, imagine, you might fumble with/ forget the cap on your 
front element (M Leica), while you react on a certain situation 
within the fractions of a second - the scene is gone, the picture
is lost, hence no money. Additionally, you often hold the camera 
above persons' heads in front of you, eyes on the scene ... you 
simply cannot give attention to the lens cap.

Alf


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