Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Summarit Hood
From: "Jim Shulman" <garcia@chesco.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:40:13 -0400

"XOONS!" is also the sorta-Shakespearean swear word you use when you
discover the price of one of these buggers!!

Jim Shulman



- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John
Collier
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:19 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Summarit Hood


The correct hood is XOONS. Another source says the folding hood from the
Xenon will work as well (XIOOM).

John Collier

> From: Shel Belinkoff <belinkoff@earthlink.net>
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me determine the correct hood for my
> Summarit 1.5.
> I don't have the lens handy, as it's at Sherry's for a CLA, nor have I
> received any of the appropriate books on Leica lenses yet.  However,
> there are a couple of hoods that have become available to me, and I'd
> like to buy one or the other if they're the appropriate hood.  I've
> not seen either yet, although one is described as being a folding,
> rectangular hood.
>
> The lens I have is, I believe, a 1959 version, #1535071.  What other
> hoods might fit this lens besides the original hood?
>