Tab and Hood for my "new" Summicron 50/f2

[marke]

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I recently got a good deal on a Summicron 50/f2 at ebay. Serial # 245XXXX.

 

The original owner said that when he bought it new, it wasn't supplied with a hood. I was under the impression that all Sum 50's before the built-in hood version, came with a removeable one. Maybe I won't even use one, but I am curious as to what Leica originally supplied and what I could use these days.

 

Also, does anybody know if this lens could have a focussing tab installed? I love the tab on my Sum 35/f2, and I was thinking about getting this 50 converted if possible.

 

Thanks!

[maxspbr]

Mark,

 

The old Summicron (50´s) used the same hood of Summitar. It is square and folding. Closed, not more than a credit card. I use one with my Summitar, and it is marked Summicron also. When I started with it I thought very very strange (and it is!). But very pratical and discrete. Now I prefer this type than the rounded... And because it is strange it is cheap! (here in Brasil around US$20,00).

 

Martin

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[luigi bertolotti]

The hood for the first type Summicron was, as already said, a folding square "box", black, with retaining springs : code SOOFM (for the Summitar only there was the almost identical SOOPD, retained by a screw). Good to use: when folded it acts as a lens cap and is impossible you forget to "remove" it ! (a typical problem with caps...); by the other side... Summicron + SOOFM don't fit in the std. everyready case. Surely wasn't supplied std. with the lens at the times. I have seen a pair of nonsense offerings of SOOFM on Ebay (>100 US$ !) ; and an italian shop has one for sale at 40 Euro, right price after all.

 

But... another hood was then sold for the Summicron 50 : it is the IROOA aka 12571, more "normal" : round, metal, also it spring-retained : the chrome ring at the base is engraved with the lenses it was build for (it fits also some 35mm): also it is easy to find: the SOOFM is more "strange" and also functional, in my mind: with the IROOA mounted you cannot cover the lens.

And also the IROOA has an almost twin brother, the ITDOO...and it was built in two versions..

 

SOOFM...

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IROOA type 1

 

IROOA type 2

 

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[luigi bertolotti]

I recently got a good deal on a Summicron 50/f2 at ebay. Serial # 245XXXX.

 

The original owner said that when he bought it new, it wasn't supplied with a hood. I was under the impression that all Sum 50's before the built-in hood version, came with a removeable one. Maybe I won't even use one, but I am curious as to what Leica originally supplied and what I could use these days.

 

Also, does anybody know if this lens could have a focussing tab installed? I love the tab on my Sum 35/f2, and I was thinking about getting this 50 converted if possible.

 

Thanks!

 

...About the focusing tab..you say it doesn't have it ? Strange...but maybe I do not remember well... 2.45x.xxx means "third version"... I thought it had (or is it already of the version with the "50" engraving at the base...mmmh, I get confused...and haven't here the BOOKS...).

Anyway, if not present, I think difficult to add one do-it-yourself... and a well-done work by some lab would be costly and maybe risky (soldering ?...brrr...)

Keep it like is: Cron 50 is beautiful ! Want a tabbed ? Buy an older version ! And if you have a M body, and USE it, find the DR version ! (or the collapsible... just to have something all different). Keep in mind that yours is A DIFFERENT lens from the previous versions, DR or not: they were 7 elements vs. 6 element yours... someone says olders=sharper and a little less contrast... I don't enter the question... Summicrons are all great lenses.

[luigi bertolotti]

....another due detail... the pictures of the 3 hoods I attached are not MINE: a courtesy (I didn't ask, BTW..."save image as...") of Leicashop of Wien www.leicashop.com : one of the best dealer in Europe. But I have them all, of course... hoods give a collector the capabilty to try to arrange a complete sub-collection without being a billionaire

[luigi bertolotti]

...About the focusing tab..you say it doesn't have it ? Strange...but maybe I do not remember well... 2.45x.xxx means "third version"... I thought it had (or is it already of the version with the "50" engraving at the base...mmmh, I get confused...and haven't here the BOOKS...).

Anyway, if not present, I think difficult to add one do-it-yourself... and a well-done work by some lab would be costly and maybe risky (soldering ?...brrr...)

Keep it like is: Cron 50 is beautiful ! Want a tabbed ? Buy an older version ! And if you have a M body, and USE it, find the DR version ! (or the collapsible... just to have something all different). Keep in mind that yours is A DIFFERENT lens from the previous versions, DR or not: they were 7 elements vs. 6 element yours... someone says olders=sharper and a little less contrast... I don't enter the question... Summicrons are all great lenses.

 

At home, looked at the BOOKS... correct, your lens has not focusing tab... but I think the lens unit unscrews from the mount (? - older did - and the SOMKY macro device, that required lens unit unscrewed, was available until '73, your lens is from '70...); you could try to "build your own bastard Cron" ... find a cheap-scratched Cron 1st design (not collapsible )... throw away the lens unit, put your lens unit on it... so better if the old is chrome ! (yours is surely black). Could work... there is the well known issue of the real focal lengths (51.2 51.6 52.2...) but if you are lucky... almost a unique specimen !

 

really I am exaggerating with posts on this thread... but when you love such gear as me...