Shallow me...

[Berliner]

I am seriously considering exchanging an ASPH Summicron 35 to get the 35 Biogon, and the stupidest thing is keeping me rom pulling the trigger. It's the hood! I can't get past the incongrous look o a silver lens with a black hood.

It'd be alternately mounted on a ZI (silver) & M6 TTL (chrome) and Hexar R(black) . Is there a non-EOM hood in silver/chrome I could use?

Contax G did it (chrome hoods)...VERY sexy looking kit, by the way...Why not Zeiss/Cosina or surely Leica? Am I insane? I'd love a chrome Biogon with chrome hood...

I think the chrome VC & Zeiss lenses look silly with those black/grey hoods... How shallow am I?

 

[dpetrzelka]

Have the Zeiss hood powder coated silver.

 

[visiondr]

Unless they mask off the internal flat black area of the hood, you're inviting reflections; not a good thing for a hood to do.

 

[jbf]

you are insane. its a friggin hood. 😛

my CV 28 ultron with its black hood looks great on the silver ZI. Stop fretting over it. 🙂

 

[gavinlg]

I think black hoods on silver lenses looks HOT!

 

[italy74]

Hi guys

I heard that lens hoods in RF cameras are more troublesome than in reflex ones, due to the fact that they could interfere with the actual viewfinder framing.. I also see that Zeiss (don't know for Leica) offers it as "optionals" and not standard.. Even in their brochures Zeiss cameras lack the hoods on the lenses.. maybe this is the reason? How much those hoods are a pro and not a cons on rangefinders? Many thanks.

 

[kshapero]

Hoods are good things. Black is best. A proper hood does not interfere in any way that makes a difference, visually. A hood also protects a lens from bumps.
You are shallow like most of us here. I feel your pain.

 

[italy74]

Thanks, Akiva..

allow me one more question... exactly, what does "shallow" means in english slang? Something like "doubtful"/"worried" ? Thanks.

 

[FanMan]

I think black hoods on silver lenses looks HOT!

I can only agree to that statement.

 

[kshapero]

Thanks, Akiva..

allow me one more question... exactly, what does "shallow" means in english slang? Something like "doubtful"/"worried" ? Thanks.

Shallow in this context means vain, plastic, materialistic, petty, all qualities that run rampant here especially yours truly.😀😉

 

[BNF]

Shallow or not, I find that if something distrubs me enough to stop me from initially buying it, that same thing bothers me on a growing scale after purchase.

I'm not so much a "learn to live with it" type. 😉