07/24/2013 20:42
Thanks everyone, I have a extra Fed a-36 hood that black rubber/plastic one so I will be set when my lens shows up in two weeks. I only hope the front lens element is not too badly marked. Now all I need to do is win the lottery and find a Fed 28mm f 4.5 or one of those 50 Macro lenses.
I have a Fed 50 3.5, Fed 100mm f 6.3 1st version with the pins and now a Fed 50mm 2.0, I use them on a Ricoh GXR with the A12 M module. I had a harder time finding two of the A-36 push on lens hood then the lenses, everyone had the a-37 style for the rigid 50mm f3.5 lenses.
I got lucky with the 100mm it was clean and the focus is smooth, the only issue is the F stop ring has just a tiny bit of wobble too it. The 50mm 3.5 I just had to take apart and clean and relube the focusing mount. I have more fun using my old Russian lenses then with my M lenses, all my leica friends think I am crazy.
wbill