What hood for a 50mm f3.5 Elmar lens

[pkuglin]

What hood for a 50mm f3.5 Elmar collapsible lens? and where to find one?

 

[charjohncarter]

I'd like to here these answers, and where to buy them besides Ebay.

 

[Joerg]

Hi

I believe the hood is called VALOO and allows for aperture setting from the hood.
Pretty nifty and works great.

Ciao

joerg

 

[Mark Wood]

Assuming it's the A36 version of the Elmar, the simplest standard clamp-on hood is called FISON. As Joerg says, VALOO is a more advanced ELMAR hood that allows you to set the aperture easily. At least that's right for the thread mount Elmar...

 

[the_jim]

Are you talking about the rarer, m-mount 50 Elmar f/3.5, or the infinitely more ubiquitous LTM Elmar?

If you are talking about the LTM Elmar, I would say Ebay or Kevin Camera's would be your best bet. There are two options - the black hood that lets you easily adjust the aperature and silver hood that just clamps on. I bought the silver one off of ebay for $50. It works and looks nice.

An equally useful but far more ghetto option can be found here:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58172&highlight=black+tape

 

[pkuglin]

It is a LTM Elmar - made in 1952

Thanks for the data. Gives me some options

 

[Roger Hicks]

FISON + VOOLA is what I like best. I had a VALOO but as others said it was really for enlarging: a big, ugly, clumsy thing.

Cheers,

R.