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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Okay, I'm being careful here...
From: "Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 02:19:17 GMT

I have also found the older caps less likely to scratch film!

An added bone-us!

Dan


>From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Okay, I'm being careful here...
>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.
>
><g>
>

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