Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html