Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/21

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Subject: [Leica] Lens Caps and Coupling Rings
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:47:15 -0400

At 12:21 PM 7/21/99 -0700, Paul Chefurka wrote:
>The coupling ring is good for precisely that one purpose - coupling (you
>should pardon the inadvertant unseemliness), as it has no protective
>partition between its two halves.  The device I described can be used as a
>cap *and* a coupler!
>

Leitz/Leica intended there to be two separate devices, a lens cap and a
lens coupling ring.  Why try to combine them?  That is the most unseemly of
all possible things!

You have, say, two lenses attached by a coupling ring in your bag, and
another on the camera.  You remove the lens from your camera and swap it
onto the coupling ring for a lens there, which you then install on your
camera.  Why the need for this mixture of lens cap and coupling ring?

Marc

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