I have a 50mm Summilux that takes E43 filters. My question is: how do I attach the filters and still use the lens hood? If I screw in a normal filter, then the notch where the hood attaches to the barrel is no longer available to secure the hood. Am I missing something? Do the Leica filters has a separate groove to mimic the notch on the lens barrel? Is there another solution? I do want to use filters and the hood.

Thanks in advance.

-- Stacy Sur (slsur@lava.net), February 15, 2002

Answers

Good question, Stacey. I have the same lens, and have not gotten aound to buying any filters. On all my lenses that take E39, the hood still slips in over the filter. I wonder: do you simply have a filter brand with a design not compatible with Leica dimensions? In which case a change of filter brand might solve it. When you solve it, please let us know. Maybe I can avoid a mistake.

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), February 15, 2002.

Yup, I have the same problem and decided to go either with filter no hood or with hood no filter. Doesn't seem to have anyway around it. Those engineers in Leica must have forgotten something when they designed the lens:) On the plus side, with an added filter the thickness of the filter ring just barely function as some sort of hood too without any sign of vignetting on top of what the lux already exhibit at 1.4. Hopefully you will find a solution that eludes me and when you do please keep us posted. Thanks and happy shooting. The lux is one of my favourite.

-- Steven Fong (steven@ima.org.sg), February 15, 2002.

Wow, a bit a technical minutiae I actually have an answer for . . .

The chrome Heliopan 43mm filter that came with my first-version Summilux does indeed have a groove around it to which the lens hood can be attached.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), February 15, 2002.

Mike, does the resulting extra extension of the hood cause any corner cutoff?

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), February 15, 2002.

I wouldn't know--first thing I did was take off the filter. (My main use for the Summilux is night/dark shooting where light sources are frequently in the frame--exactly the situations where the filter is most likely to cause ghost images.) It probably won't cause a serious problem; the extra extension of the hood would only be about 3 mm.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), February 15, 2002.

Hello Stacy. I don't have a problem with 50mm.Summilux,filter and hood combination.

Screw in filter is a LEITZ E43 UVa with part no.13206.

Hood is standard detachable hood with cutouts inscribed 1:1.4/50 with part no.12586.

When the hood "buttons" are pushed in, the four sets of retractable teeth slide over the filter, front lens edge and sit comfortably in the lens groove and just in front of the attached filter. Regards.

-- Sheridan Zantis (albada60@hotmail.com), February 16, 2002.

Stacey. I don't really understand the question or some of the answers. The filter is simply an E43 screw in filter, and the lenshood (either the earlier version XOOIM/12525 or 12586) is simply a clip-on hood. You just clip it on by pressing in the the two metal clips and releasing them when the hood is in place.

This is NOT a bayonet-on type hood. It doesn't matter if there is a filter in place. I use a hood on top of an E43 Leitz UVa filter. What's the problem?

-- Eliot (erosen@lij.edu), February 16, 2002.