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Leica 28 Summicron Lens shade 12466

dkmoore

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wlaidlaw

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A reasonable alternative to consider is a black coated titaniium Contax GG1 hood and the matching cap. These are freely available and I think very neat, with minimal intrusion into the VF field. No vignetting and seem to provide enough shade for the 28 ASPH, which is not terribly flare prone anyway. 

 

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I checked my 12466 hood closely and there is no Leica inscription anywhere. The only marking is the white dot. 

 

The design and operation of the hood definitely appears to be the real deal and the quality leads me to believe it still is.

 

Does anyone have one that doesn't have anything etched or printed like mine? Or, did I pay $350.00 for a very convincing fake?

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I checked my 12466 hood closely and there is no Leica inscription anywhere. The only marking is the white dot. 

 

The design and operation of the hood definitely appears to be the real deal and the quality leads me to believe it still is.

 

Does anyone have one that doesn't have anything etched or printed like mine? Or, did I pay $350.00 for a very convincing fake?

If you study pictures in the link for sale of 12466 you can spot "Leica" script, so, draw you own conllusions.

https://orders.ebay.in/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ImportHubViewItem&itemid=281171031190

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My thought was that they may not have engraved all of them as the hood looks, feels, and operates like an authentic Leica product. It also came with the Leica box and every aspect looks identical to the eBay picture you linked to.

 

I understand and agree with your point but having paid good money I was checking first in case there were different production runs that may have included hoods that didn't have the engraving.

 

I probably won't return it anyway as it looks great and provides enough shade.

 

Dustin 

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My thought was that they may not have engraved all of them as the hood looks, feels, and operates like an authentic Leica product. It also came with the Leica box and every aspect looks identical to the eBay picture you linked to.

 

I understand and agree with your point but having paid good money I was checking first in case there were different production runs that may have included hoods that didn't have the engraving.

 

I probably won't return it anyway as it looks great and provides enough shade.

 

Dustin 

 

If there are really good copies around there would be a good market for them without the Leica box !

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menos I M6

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My thought was that they may not have engraved all of them as the hood looks, feels, and operates like an authentic Leica product. It also came with the Leica box and every aspect looks identical to the eBay picture you linked to.

 

I understand and agree with your point but having paid good money I was checking first in case there were different production runs that may have included hoods that didn't have the engraving.

 

I probably won't return it anyway as it looks great and provides enough shade.

 

Dustin 

 

Dustin, I bought two of these lens hoods when they just became available the first time to market years ago.

I bought them from Popflash in the US (as even then the prices very very high and Popflash simply had the best condition on price and shipping).

 

Both my lens hoods came brand new with contemporary proper black and silver Leica OEM packaging.

Both are engraved as described in this thread:

 

- engraved index dot at 1200, filled with white paint,

- engraved "LEICA" in Leica font without paint filing at 0600

 

Curiously one of the two lens hoods arrived with the index dot paint filling missing (never painted) - so even then there was a bit of sample variation with Leica ;-)

 

I never really believed the claimed limitation to only 500 units of these lens hoods - maybe it's true, maybe not (I never saw it in official text).

Maybe as these became more popular then Leica initially thought, they had a second production run and obsoleted the LEICA engraving as a measure of distinguishing between production runs or "limited" vs regular version (it also saves substantially in manufacturing cost/ unit, omitting this engraving).

 

Of course this is all conjecture and either version of the lens hood is a great user - I have mine in use with the 35/1.4 ASPH and 28/2 ASPH and wouldn't use any other hood then this one on these two lenses any longer (although the 35/1.4 ASPH OEM hood is nice compact and tight as well).

 

23609595110_2ef72fd124_o.jpg35 Summilux ASPH by Dirk Steffen, on Flickr

 

 

If there are really good copies around there would be a good market for them without the Leica box !

 

I would hate another set of copies of genuine accessories (there are enough 12504 fake hoods around to provide enough bad surprises when buying a lens already).

 

I am all for great third party accessories and love a well made product, third party or OEM - be it low budget, great working items as the cheap Chinese produced threaded lens hoods available or custom made items in hard to find sizes as the Japanese Yama hoods or low production custom jobs as certain lens hoods for historically hard to find items (see lens hoods for Nikkor 50/1.1 for example).

 

What I hate are hard to distinguish "copy jobs" which can be confused or passed as the real thing as it invites the negative side of buying photo gear.

 

Keep it original please.

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[...] I never really believed the claimed limitation to only 500 units of these lens hoods - maybe it's true, maybe not (I never saw it in official text).

Maybe as these became more popular then Leica initially thought, they had a second production run [...]

 

This second production run is not listed on my Leica tariffs. Tariffs from 2011 and 2012 (attached) refer to "500 ex" (500 copies) of the 12466 hood and the latter is not listed anymore on said tariffs since 2013. FWIW.

 

Leica_tarif_120917_p07.pdf

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Bill Livingston

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You DO know that you can buy this...?

 

http://www.overgaard.dk/Thorsten-von-Overgaard-Gallery-Store-Hardware-for-Photography-Leica-35mm-Summilux-f14-FLE-Ventilated-Lens-Shade.html

 

I suppose it is possible you bought something similar... but if true, for considerably more than you needed to... so let's hope yours is one of the 500 originals. If you have the box, that's highly likely...

 

(I'm also on a mobile device and if there has already been mention of this earlier in the thread, I apologise now... :) )

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I bought one from a contact in China about 2 years ago and it fits the 35FLE perfectly

 

It may fit any lens with 46mm filter thread as long as it's screw mount

 

I thought it needed an external filter thread... Are you sure it fits internal ones?

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dkmoore

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The shade came with the typical silver/black leica box.

 

The mechanism and push tabs look identical.

 

Should I return it or is it likely that its real and just missed the etched leica?

 

Also, I am pretty sure that the hoods on thorstens site do not fit on the 28 cron or 35 lux v1.

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TheGodParticle/Hari

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I thought it needed an external filter thread... Are you sure it fits internal ones?

Positive mate, it screws on to the same threads where the 35FLE hood screws into

 

The hood is very well made on the outside, the insides are not smooth/polished. The 12466 is. But at the price difference, I have no complaints. Bumped it around many times but the little fella holds up very well

 

Take a look, I made a short video:

 

https://vimeo.com/183830867

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