Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/21/99 5:01:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, msmall@roanoke.infi.net writes: << 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 >> Of course you know that the R lens couplers *do* have a solid partition in the middle. Why the M couplers don't is probably open (pardon the pun) to conjecture, but to me it's no big deal because I simply put the body cap on the open end of the coupler, just to protect the rear element of the other coupled lens. The most important fact is that Leica, and nobody else, makes couplers *period*, and they're a darned nifty idea. I had to jury-rig two lenscaps together for my Nikons. I don't trust glue. I used flatwashers and pop-rivets. But I doubt if I'd have ever thought of it were it not for the Leica couplers. DT