Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, most metal caps these days are the after market versions. Unless one buys an older Leica version from Don's voluminous inventory of metal caps. Slobodan Dimitrov On Mar 10, 2007, at 7:33 PM, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information