Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Perennial PIA
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:58:53 -0700
References: <011901c31357$2d33d540$046fa8c0@MillStone> <001101c3135d$3686dc40$9cad5018@gv.shawcable.net>

Lew

Ted is right about the caps being left on the lens.

I solved that by putting a strip of 3/4 inch wide black
masking tape as a little "flag" overhanging the caps and
visible in the viewfinder on all my Leica lenses.

Jerry

Ted Grant wrote:

> Lew wrote:
>
> > Ok. I just managed to lose a lens cap again. Is there an inexpensive
> > source for these annoying things?<<<
>
> Hi Lew,
> Yeah don't bother replacing them! ;-) Heck the only time I have a lens cap
> on any of the few lenses I have left with a cap is when the cameras are in
> the bag.... which is rarely. :-)
>
> Heck I've carried and used my Noctilux nearly every week for at least 20
> years without a lens shade, let alone a lens cap. To bad about the lens
> shade, it fell apart so I threw the rest of it away. :-)
>
> Lens caps are no big deal anyway and with the M camera there's a good
> possibility of inadvertently leaving it on and missing pictures.  Oh you
> haven't done that one yet? :-) Most of us have at sometime during our photo
> lives and those who haven't yet, the Great Lens Cap God will get them sooner
> or later. :-)
>
> ted
> Samples from the Women in Medicine project:
> http://www.sandycarterphotography.com/WIMcollagePage.htm
>
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
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In reply to: Message from "Lew" <lew@clsystems.com> ([Leica] Perennial PIA)
Message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Perennial PIA)