Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>I noticed all these people with their Nikon/Canon AF and Digital >>Motor Driven SLRS shooting with the Lens Hoods turned around >>protecting/shading the Lens Bodies. It would seem no >>one has told them what the lens hood is for. Maybe it is a status >>or fashion thing... Geeshh. Don't you know that the fluorite glass in Canon 'L' lenses need to be protected from the heat? What you were seeing was heat shielding, not a lens hood, silly. Karen p.s. I understand that Leica 'R' lenses do not suffer from this weakness. ;-P - -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html