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Subject: [Leica] WTB: lens shade for Canon 50mm f/1.2
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:52:08 -0500

Here's a guy taking the lens apart and putting it back together again after
cleaning it.
http://portretteur.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:cleani
ng-a-canon-50mm-12-rangefinder-lens&catid=37:lenses&Itemid=58
Or
http://tinyurl.com/3yq3l6c


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Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb




> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:49:00 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Conversation: [Leica] WTB: lens shade for Canon 50mm f/1.2
> Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: lens shade for Canon 50mm f/1.2
> 
> Here is an article on the lens. With nice pix. Of the lens.
> There is a pic of the hood. A very involved thing.
> 
> 
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> mark at rabinergroup.com
> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Philip Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:39:28 -0500
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] WTB: lens shade for Canon 50mm f/1.2
>> 
>> I'm looking for a clamp-on vented lens shade with an
>> inner diameter of 57mm. This is for a Canon 50mm f/1.2 LTM lens.
>> Hopefully USER condition since these things have risen above $300
>> lately.
>> Either the OEM shade would work or some other version. I could also use
>> a short, non-vented clamp on shade, so long as it doesn't interfere too
>> much with the image in the viewfinder.
>> 
>> (I would use a screw-in hood but I already have a 55mm UV/IR slim
>> filter which won't allow for a screw-in hood)
>> 
>> Aside from that, I'm open to suggestions on how to fabricate a vented
>> shade for this giant lens.
>> 
>> Thanks all!
>> Phil Forrest
>> 
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