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Subject: [Leica] OT Gotta Rant
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 01:32:36 -0700
References: <p06240801cbd4bcb197a9@192.168.1.101> <4347F038C2BF42569598E2B8BEA677A0@syneticfeba505> <p06240803cbd509baa59c@192.168.1.101>

Well, this is an easy one. Unless you have a special lens such as the
Noctilux, it does matter that you have a hood on, for flare suppression.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Attn Uncle Ted:
>
> The hood isn't to protect the lens. It's to prevent flare when shooting
> close to the sun. At least, that's what I've been taught. Never did a
> controlled experiment to see if it really matters.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Herb
>
>
>  Hi Herb,
>> Lens caps are a pain in the butt!  I buy a new lens the first thing
>> I put in the cupboard out of the way is the lens cap!
>>
>> My Noctilux hasn't had a lens cap on it since it was purchased and
>> that had to be around 1970/ 71?  It hasn't had a lens shade on it
>> since 1980 when one of the pins in the lens fell out and the shade
>> couldn't lock onto the lens. I asked Leica Canada at the time about
>> putting a new pin in the outer ring of the lens and it was going to
>> cost a fortune.
>>
>> So did my usual KISS treatment and took the other pin out so it
>> wouldn't keep catching in my camera bag. :-) So the Noctilux has
>> travelled the world and back a few times with neither a lens cap nor
>> lens hood! :-) And the glass is as good as the day the lens was
>> made! :-)
>>
>> cheers,
>> ted
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:33 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] OT Gotta Rant
>>
>>
>>  Everyone has to rant sometime.
>>>
>>> When I bought a 35mm Summicron from KEH, it include a hood and
>>> plastic cap. The cap shortly afterward wound up on the floor of a
>>> bus in Toronto. I asked on the LUG if anyone had one to sell, and
>>> to my utter amazement, a letter from Burna arrived weeks later with
>>> this piece of plastic within.
>>>
>>> I resolved to be very very careful with the new one, but in time,
>>> it too vanished. I dropped in at Keeble and Schuchat to see if one
>>> could be ordered from Leica, and the salesman just pulled one out
>>> of a drawer and produced it for some price north of $30, close to
>>> $35 with tax included. Cheez! That for a crummy hunk of flexible
>>> plastic!
>>>
>>> So, I resolved to be very very very careful now. Every time I got
>>> into or out of my car, I'd feel to be sure it was still there. So,
>>> I park my car on the dirt at the side of Alpine Road, walk a couple
>>> of tenths of a mile down a bike trail--no woods, no underbrush,
>>> just a simple trail--realize that I'm on the wrong trail, turn back
>>> to my car, feel before entering the car and find that the hood cap
>>> is GONE. Move the car, check the ground where and around where it
>>> had been. No cap!
>>>
>>> Sure as hell ain't gonna pay over $30 again. Just gonna carry the
>>> standard lens cap in my pocket, and if I get into an environment
>>> where I feel the open hood is not sufficient protection, I'll just
>>> put the hood in my pocket and put the standard lens cap on.
>>>
>>> Grrrrr!
>>>
>>> Herb
>>> --
>>> Herbert Kanner
>>> kanner at acm.org
>>> 650-326-8204
>>>
>>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>>>
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>>
>>
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>
> --
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See 
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>  more information
>



-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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