Re: [Leica] tele elmarit caps, hoods, etc.

[Kip Babington <cbabing3@swbell.net>]

If your 50mm Summilux uses the 12586 vented metal hood, you can keep the hood
mounted on the lens and cover the front with a generic (i.e., cheap) 62mm lens
cap - the kind with the two spring loaded buttons on opposite sides.  Much
quicker to get into operation than removing the Leitz cap and reversing the
hood.  (I keep my 35mm Summilux set up the same way with a 58mm generic cap on
the front of its hood #12504.)

The 12575 hood is appropriate for the tele-elmarit and gives good shade to that
lens (It also works on the 135/4 Tele-Elmar.)  The front of this hood, of which I
have a sample at the moment but no lens that uses it, will hold a 55mm generic
cap, although a 56mm probably would be better if there were such a thing.

Keeping the hoods installed in their working orientation with the fronts capped
as described makes for very convenient deployment from a bag, but it does add a
bit of length compared to storing with the hoods reversed.  For me, the
convenience is worth the extra bit of space the lenses occupy in a bag.

Try this at a store.  You might like it.

Cheers,
Kip

RGKEG@aol.com wrote:

> I just got a tele elmarit and need to figure out how to set this lens up the
> way I want it.  It came with a somewhat cheesy rubber hood, and there is no
> way to put a cap on it while the hood is on.  My 35 summicron, with the
> plastic hood, lets me keep the rubber front piece on, and is easily removable
> to shoot.
>
> I generally will keep this lens mounted on an M3, and would like to keep it
> available with a hood and some kind of cap that can protect the lens in the
> bag.
>
> By the way, the same goes for my 50mm summilux with the metal hood that
> mounts on the camera in reverse, cap attached.
>
> The hood from the 35 clips right on to the 90, and would work fine, but I
> have not seen them sold separately.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>                            Ron Kutak