Ken Ford
Refuses to suffer fools
Glad to see that a hood is likely. I wish there was a setup option for controlling whether the lens retracts on sleep of power off - it would be a simple firmware change, I think. I just emailed both Leica USA and Leica AG to suggest it.
I just received a very nice email back from Leica AG. The writer was actually enthusiastic about the idea of allowing setup control of lens retraction behavior and was passing on the suggestion to the product team.
I have no illusions this will happen because of my email, but if more people spoke up on the topic I think a firmware change to allow this is at least possible.