Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux - 1st impressions
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 04:30:08 -0500

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
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