35 lenshood for 28?

[DavidStone]

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Does anyone know for certain if the lenshood for the 35mm Summilux fits the 28mm Summicron, and does not cause cut-off when used on the M8? Both lenses have the same filter diameter, and the 35 should be a more efficient M8 lenshood for the 28mm lens.

 

David

[wattsy]

Yes, it's fine on both counts.

[DavidStone]

Yes, it's fine on both counts.

 

Thanks Ian. That's another expensive piece of plastic on my shopping list. I now need to find a use for the redundant 28mm hood.

 

David

[guidomo]

If you can use the 35/1.4A hood on the 28/2A, why does Leica not sell them with the same hood? Surely there is a reason for the two being different.

 

(This interests me as I have a 35/1.4A and am awaiting a 28/2A. Whilst it would be nice to know one only needs one of the hoods I'm finding is hard to believe that it's that easy.)

[Bill W]

I bought the 35 hood for my 28. It works fine. It is certainly smaller and more compact that the 28 hood. On other than an M8 there might be a vignetting problem.......

[guidomo]

I bought the 35 hood for my 28. It works fine. It is certainly smaller and more compact that the 28 hood. On other than an M8 there might be a vignetting problem.......

 

Ah yes, forgot about the crop. Thanks Bill.

[lars_bergquist]

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I would have made the switch myself but for the fact that I do not love the 35 hood. It is not the most successful hood design of all time, and it is significant that since 1994, it has not ben used for any other lens hood. The aperture index dot on the wobbly locking ring is a grand p.i.t.a.

 

The old man from the Age of the Bowler Hat Lens Shade

[nikau]

Going in the opposite direction, I also use the hood from my 35mm Summicon ASPH on my 50mm Summicron - the previous Canadian-made version. Works fine with no vignetting that I can see, thanks to the smaller sensor size.

[gravastar]

Going in the opposite direction, I also use the hood from my 35mm Summicon ASPH on my 50mm Summicron - the previous Canadian-made version. Works fine with no vignetting that I can see, thanks to the smaller sensor size.

I started to do that but always had trouble preventing the hood from rotating. I guess you are talking about the 35mm ASPH Summicron hood that has a rectangular aperture and tabs that locate into slots at the front of the lens.

 

Does the front of your 50mm Summicron have the slots that the hood locks into? I have an early version with focus tab, it has no slots. I did think about glueing two small pieces of plastic on the lens barrel to make a slot. The rectangular hood is a great improvement and I'd like to use it.

 

Bob.

[lars_bergquist]

Now, if the hood of the 35mm Summilux works OK on the 28mm Summicron because this is equivalent to a 37mm lens – this means of course that this same hood is too wide for the Summilux because it is equivalent to 47mm! So the best solution may well be an E46mm cylindrical hood for standard lenses. The B+W lens hood 950 is available in this thread size.

 

The old man from the Age of Folding Cameras

[lct]

The 35Lux shade (pic 1) is more protective in case of drop or bump but the B+W (pic 2) makes it more comfortable to rotate the aperture ring i feel. Both work fine on the R-D1 but i don't know if the M8 vignettes with the B+W.

 

 

[DavidStone]

Now, if the hood of the 35mm Summilux works OK on the 28mm Summicron because this is equivalent to a 37mm lens – this means of course that this same hood is too wide for the Summilux because it is equivalent to 47mm! So the best solution may well be an E46mm cylindrical hood for standard lenses. The B+W lens hood 950 is available in this thread size.

 

The old man from the Age of Folding Cameras

 

From when the M8 first appeared, I felt that Leica could have offered a set of M8 lenshoods for their current range of lenses, with a tighter crop. Most lenshoods have a fairly large "safety margin" anyway. I'm not fond of round lenshoods since they are less efficient than a rectangular hood. But then I learned my photography in an earlier era, when accurate lenshoods were an absolute necessity. With modern lens coatings flare and veiling are less of a problem.

 

David