Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Question about filters
From: "Claes Bjerner" <claes.bjerner@pi.se>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:05:10 +0100

>> John Collier wrote:
>>> 
>>> on 20/1/00 7:12 pm, John at bosjohn@mediaone.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am new to this group so if this question has been asked and answered
>>>> before,
>>>> my apologies.  Why in the name of God, did Leitz and I presume Leica make
>>>> the
>>>> G---d---- filters slightly smaller in diameter than the lens so my lens cap
>>>> keeps falling off?
>>>
>>> Welcome! Which lens, filter and lens cap?
>>>
>>> John Collier
>> All my e-39 lenses the filters are slightly smaller in diameter than the lens
>> itself.  All my lenses are from the fifties and sixties.
>> John
>
> Try using the later plastic cap (product code 14268). It is deep enough to
> fit over the filter on all the 42mm (39mm filter) front diameter lenses.
>
> John Collier

It sounds like the fabric on the inside of your Leica lens caps has dried up
and thereby shrunken. Put the caps in a glass of water over-night and then
you bring them "back to life" with a hairdryer.

Claes