Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All my lens caps are plastic, except for my 200/4 Telyt Visio lens. Even my 560 Telyt has a plastic slip on cap. Gene -------------- Original message from John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>: -------------- > No, the plastic slip-on cap was introduced earlier than that. My > German produced 35/2 fourth version had a plastic slip-on cap (early > nineties). All the lenses that took the 12585 cap used a slip-on > plastic cap that fit on the reversed cap (sixties). Of course all the > CL lenses had plastic caps as did the Tele-Elmarit (seventies). > Finally, the new version of the 50/2.8 has a metal cap whether it is > a black or silver lens. > > As to a quality difference in the new 28/2.8 Asph, it is one of the > few times Leica has replaced a lens and the replacement is > significantly cheaper. As the lens it replaced didn't have an > Aspherical element, I think they must have cut back somewhere. If I > get a 28, it will be non-Asph F2.8 or the Summicron. > > John Collier > > On 10-Mar-07, at 5:39 PM, Vick Ko wrote: > > > I thought when I bought a new 50f2.8, the cap felt like plastic. I > > think > > the standard cap for 39mm lenses was introduced in plastic a few > > years ago > > with the new 50/2.8. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information