Brian,
I am sure you will like the lens. There is a lens cap for this lens. It
is a push fit over the fixed lens hood....I believe it is slightly deeper than
the standard Voigtlander lens caps..I will dig out my lens tomorrow and check.
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
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--- On Tue, 1/9/09, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> At long last I have my alternate to my one-time (but now
> abandoned) goal of
> a 14mm Sigma rectilineal lens fitted to an OM body; this
> morning the
> Courier brought me a (manual) Voigtlander L camera body
> fitted with a
> Leica-fit screw-mount 15/4.5 super-wide Heliar Aspheric
> (rectilineal) lens, all
> the way from National Camera Exchange, Golden Valley, MN,
> USA.
> The dimensions are almost exactly the same as that of an OM
> body - minus
> the mirror box, and the prism mound. This body has an
> exterior view-finder
> that clips on the outside. The lens is as short as
> the pancake Zuiko 40/2,
> but is only about 60% of the width.
>
> The whole thing feels like a little jewel in the hand. I
> have to invent a lens-
> cap as there isn't one (never made for this set-up as far
> as I know), and I will
> probably get a camera case from Stephen Gandy. The body
> feels and
> functions rather like the OM2000, which is hardly
> surprising since both are
> made by the Cosina company - which has taken over the
> Voigtlander
> trademark, as I understand it.
>
> So now I have a film camera which will do very wide urban
> and rural
> landscapes, especially valuable for lighting and subject
> situations that digital
> can't cope with. I'm looking froward to putting a
> film or more through it.
>
> Brian Swale.
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