50mm ASPH LHSA Lux minimum focus?

[jamriman]

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I found one! Anybody know it's minimum focus? Thanks.

[lct]

.7 meter apparently:

Leica 50mm f/1.4 LHSA Edition

http://tinyurl.com/yknuxld

[peter_n]

Yep. The barrel is marked 0.7M but the focus ring goes past that a wee bit on my copy. The lens focuses to infinitesimally below 0.7M.

[jamriman]

Thanks guys. I don't have the lens yet so at least I don't feel as dumb. :^)

[peter_n]

Great lens, you'll love it. It has a 43mm filter size with a 0.5mm thread pitch on the filter thread, just like the v.1 and v.2 pre-ASPH Summiluxes. All Hoya filters seem to screw into it, regardless of thread pitch, but only some B+W filters screw in. B+W are still making some filters with both 0.5 and 0.75mm thread pitch, and luckily their MRC UV filter is one.

[Ivar B]

Great lens, you'll love it. It has a 43mm filter size with a 0.5mm thread pitch on the filter thread, just like the v.1 and v.2 pre-ASPH Summiluxes. All Hoya filters seem to screw into it, regardless of thread pitch, but only some B+W filters screw in. B+W are still making some filters with both 0.5 and 0.75mm thread pitch, and luckily their MRC UV filter is one.

 

Yes, but I don`t think you can mount the lens hood with the B + W filter in place as it is too thick. At least it was in the past. What I did was take a new MRC B + W filter, remove the glass, and insert it into an old Leica E43 mount. Glass can easily be removed from the Leica mount without damaging the mount as there is a fastening ring you can unscrew, but you neet to cut through the rim on the B + W mount. In case you wonder why i bothered, the answer is that the coating on B + W is superior, besides Leica do not make E43 filters in black any longer.

[jamriman]

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Another approach is to have a screw-in type hood screwed into a filter that screws directly into the lens, which has a 0.5mm filter ring thread pitch. I like this Idea because it preserves the original hood. This type of hood is smaller, well made and cheap. It works fine since the lens is very flare resistant anyhow. I have used the filters on other lenses simply because they are less intrusive.

 

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[peter_n]

I do the same as John above, I don't like the hood that came with the lens so I screw a generic 43mm hood that I got from Stephen Gandy into the filter. No worries!