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Tomek

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Frankly speaking, I am losing control using my brand new Summilux-M 1.4/ASPH. It happens very often that cap is just going away and almost each time when I pick up M10 camera from my relatively big bag. Recently the security team on airport had huge problems to find my cap in an x-ray machine.  Do you know other solution more secure and trustful?

 

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No. I can. But cap keeps lens very gently and it is extremely easy to remove it.

 

Well those hood caps are goodies some of us oldies never used in the past. Current Leica lenses have them but they are not made to stick firmly on the hoods so they tend to fall off rather easily. I you use filters to protect your jewels even more ;) those caps may well stay i your bag or better so in a drawer. Otherwise, there is a metal lens cap in the pouch of the lens as Paul J said above.

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Yeah, they're self-ejecting, mostly. I don't think I've had a single good one, apart from the one on the stainless steel 35 Summilux- M ASPH that came with the M60 - that was a lovely lens and the cap was snug. Even the SL lenses have rubbish caps.

 

I do use the caps when putting lenses into my bag (dust, lint and other crap that gathers there). I tend to wrap lenses or use their leather pouches, which keeps the caps on. With the camera, I wedge the lens against the padding to keep it on. When taking pictures, I put the cap in my pocket.

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Happy that I am no true Leica man, for my 1:2/35 Version 4 has one:

 

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Who uses caps?

 

 I do.

 

But I don't use filters very often and I feel it protects the front element when I'm hurriedly putting thing in my bag or fiddling around with them while taking them out and swapping lenses.

 

It's just a habit really. I don't know if it makes much difference to anything.

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