Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner says: > > Ted I've seen going everywhere with the slightly earlier removable hood version > over his arm. Making great use of the removability feature of that hood! > I think if they made a big fat black rubber band to keep the built in hood > extended it would firm it up and make it better, more solid. Blacktape might > gunk it up, sorry Doc! > Some someone on the list a few years ago expressed frustration at not being able > to get the darn hood off i think some of us at the time felt that to be a bit > silly. But now that i have one i can almost see his point. > I wouldn't mind having mine not be there. Prying it off. > Get some other hood for the front. Or even be like Ted and go hoodless. Naked > against the cruel dark world. My solution for the current 50/2.0 retractable hood is screw a metal hood in where the filter threads are, the retractable hood just stays retracted. The metal hood I have is an old Walz and is vented just like a Leica hood. sl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html