Re: [Leica] Noctilux with built-in shade

["George Kenney" <georgekenney@earthlink.net>]

Does anybody who has the Noctilux with built-in shade have any 
experience with having a repair shop remove it? This' got to be one 
of the all-time worst industrial designs ever. The shade, when 
retracted, makes it almost impossible to remove the lens cap 
without pinching it so hard that it flies into the glass. And between 
the shade and the lens body all sorts of dust, lint, and debris of 
varying kinds accumulates at an astonishing rate. Spraying 
compressed air won't get it all out, and tweezers can't fit in there. A 
nice reversible shade would make more sense. 

But the lens, of course, is magnificent...

Thanks,

G.