M Lenses and Crooked Hoods

[Hacker]

For the first time, I had a buyer telling me that the hood was crooked and he wanted a refund. I have never actually checked any of my hoods, and I Googled and was surprised:

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=007Twm

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=002bvu

The question before me is:

Is the crookedness a defect or within the manufacturing allowances?

The lens has just came back from Solms for a 6-bit coding, and would this not be detected?

 

[Pablito]

The rectangular hood on my Summicron 35mm is off every so slightly. It's not the hood, of course but the lens. Sherry said she'd have to take the whole lens front off and reglue it and suggested I leave it alone. It's BARELY crooked, but I noticed it and mentioned it to her when the lens was in for CLA. I followed her advice.

Of course the lens performs perfectly.

 

[marke]

The rectangular hood on my Summicron 35mm is off every so slightly. It's not the hood, of course but the lens. Sherry said she'd have to take the whole lens front off and reglue it and suggested I leave it alone. It's BARELY crooked, but I noticed it and mentioned it to her when the lens was in for CLA. I followed her advice.

Of course the lens performs perfectly.

Yeah, the same with my Summicron 35/f2 ASPH. It's not really noticable unless you're actually looking for it.

 

[Rob-F]

I've noticed a slight misalignment with my 35mm version IV Summicron. There have been complaints about the Summicron ASPH as well. I think it all started when they started glueing the lenses together. And of course when they started using rectangular hoods! Hardly such a thing as a crooked round hood!

 

[rodneyAB]

i got one of those Zeiss lenses with the rectangular hood and it sits crooked off to one side,...looks dam odd to me...a round lens hood would go un noticed