Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/30

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Subject: [Leica] Okay, I'm being careful here...
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:23:05 +0000

>>>>
i wonder if there is any remarkable difference of quality between lens
caps "made in canada" and german-made lens caps? could the quality of
lens
be improved, if they will be produced with a red dot? ;-)
<<<<

Well, I certainly hesistate to bring up the old-vs.-new question again,
but there is (I believe) certainly a difference between the old metal
lenscaps and the new plastic ones (in my opinion). The older metal
lenscaps with "Leica" in beautiful script stamped in them and a strip of
velvet to provide friction seem (to me) to be better made, and
(personally, just me) I find metal to be a more pleasing material than
black molded plastic.

***DISCLAIMER***DISCLAIMER***DISCLAIMER***
DISCLAIMER: the above is the writer's opinion exclusively, and should
not be construed as an endorsement of metal, lenscaps, the word "Leica,"
or the Way They Made Old Things In The Good Old Days; nor does it
constitute a claim that the reader should consider the old lenscaps to
be better than the new lenscaps, especially if the reader believes that
everything Leica does now is done for a reason and is therefore, by
definition, above reproach.

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