Leica Summitar Lens Hood Suggestions

[kbg32]

I have recently acquired a beautiful 50 f2 Summitar. I really do not want the barn door lens hood. Has anyone have any alternative suggestions? Will the clip on lens hood for the 50 Summicron fit?



Thanks.

 

[thmk]

I use the 12585H vented hood without problems.

 

[laptoprob]

I don't have a Summitar but my Quinon shares the same filter size. I use an empty ring usually to get a ridge to get a better hold of the 12585 metal Summicron hood. Same method works with glass filter too ofcourse.

 

[doubs43]

I bought a clamp-on polarizer with built-in hood that had defective glass. I removed the glass and use it as a hood only. Works just fine.

Walker

 

[erudolph]

Also, S.K. Grimes, for $65, can machine you an adapter that will allow you to use 39mm filters and it will an a groove for the 12585 hood to seat in, so that hood will fit better.

Ed

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I use the IROOA for both my summitar and 35/3.5 summaron.

 

[photodog]

Get a Tiffen Series VI adapter and a Series VI hood. I got mine from filterfind.net. You need to ask for a Summitar Series VI adapter. Total cost: less than $25.

 

[kbg32]

Thanks guys. I was wondering if the 12585 hood fit.

 

[kbg32]

Get a Tiffen Series VI adapter and a Series VI hood. I got mine from filterfind.net. You need to ask for a Summitar Series VI adapter. Total cost: less than $25.

Nice setup.

 

[OldNick]

I also use a Series VI adapter and a Series VI hood. I also use a Leica Briteline finder because I wear glasses, so that negates the problem of the hood hiding a part of the built-in viewfinder. I do the same with my Elmar 5cm f/3.5, so I can use the same filters for both lenses.

Jim N.

 

[VictorM.]

I love Series 6 accessories! I use a Canon adapter ring with a Vivitar hood and Leitz Series 6 filters.

 

[OldNick]

I've found that, with the Elmar 5cm f/3.5 and its front aperture adjustment, a slip-on adapter for Series VI works best. To change the setting, I can slip off the hood and filter, reset the f-stop, and slip the assembly back on, with nothing to screw or unscrew. It works like a charm. And, with the knurled front ring of the Elmar, nothing gets scratched up.

Jim N.

 

[FrankS]

I have read that there are 3 versions of the Summitar with 3 versions of the barnshade hood. One version has no groove, one has a narrow v-groove, and another has a wider square-bottom groove on the lens nose. The clip-on 12585 hood for the Summicron fits best on the last type. This is the type that I have, and the 12585 hood fits well on it.

 

[payasam]

FrankS is right about the three versions of the SOOPD. I'll only add that the clamp on kind (no groove) will fit any Summitar. To my horror, I note that everyone else has spoken of round hoods. The Summitar is a sensitive beauty which reacts badly to light which it does not put on the film. It is no coincidence that Leitz made the rectangular SOOPD for it, as well as rectangular hoods for the Summar and the Summarit and the Summicron. Twin lens Rolleis have square hoods. Of course, a round hood is ideal for a lens which puts a circular image on the film.
[EDIT] Sean Moran, who lurks among the M Leicas but who should soon make his appearance here, having acquired a II which is being set right, has just procured for me a clamp on SOOPD. I look forward to being laughed at for using the large and clumsy object, just about the most efficient that could have been made.

 

[Sean Moran]

Hello Payasam,

Yes the barndoors do look rather odd

... but I find the contraption a nice little ice-breaker when taking portraits. The whole palaver of retrieving the folded barndoors from the front zip compartment of a Billingham 'Pola' stowaway bag, making it pop up with a flourish, pulling the lens into shooting position then clipping the barndoors onto the Summitar both fascinates and relaxes the sitter. Such charming technology is not going to make them look stupid, they feel.

Cheers,

Seán.

 

[payasam]

You have a point there, Sean, so far as posed portraits are concerned: the Punch and Judy bit may well be relaxing. My ideal, though, is portraits where the victim isn't quite aware that a picture has been taken. This is best done when the victim is part of a group, or else is distracted by an accomplice (conspirator?) of the photographer's. Any camera is OK, really, though the quietness of the M shutter puts it at the top. A leaf shutter is of course even better in this respect, although it almost always limits you to a single focal length.

 

[peterm1]

Whats the problem with using the standard more or less contemporary summicron lens. I do and it works fine.

 

[peterm1]

Oops should have said....

Whats the problem with using the standard hood for the more or less contemporary summicron lens. I do and it works fine.

 

[payasam]

Do you mean the rectangular hood, Peter, or a round one? A round one will leave a great deal of space for unwanted light to get to the longer edges of the frame. Leitz, by the way, made a hood (rectangular) which could be used with either the Summitar or the Summicron, and it was so marked.