Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >In another purchase (an M3), the seller threw in a Bolex 8mm P1 "Zoom > >Reflex", a very pretty camera outfit on my display shelf w/ Bethiot > >Pan-Cinor zoom lens. I still have it for when Steven Spielberg calls. > > > >Gary Todoroff > > > Lovely! I suspect that the movie camera will sit high on a shelf, only to be > pulled down when a guest stares at it. Question for you: are the lenses > supposed to focus? I cannot figure that one out. They have a DOF scale that > doesn't seem to jive with the focus scale. Any info would be helpful. > Private if anyone objects to the topic. > > Ben W. Holmes How did you know I'd have to reach up to the top shelf to check out the lens focus? The next shelf down has a pretty matched Zeiss Contaflex and Contina with identical Pantar 45mm lenses - kind of an early 60's gentleman and lady. Below that is the Leica screw mount collection spanning about 25 years of various bodies and lenses, including a Sears Tower Leica copy - an interesting combination of screw mount style rangefinder, but with M3 style winder. Thanks to a LUG lead to Stephen Gandy's web site and his very friendly e-mail reply, I discovered that my Tower is a model 35. The Bolex Pan-Cinor zooms with a lever at the bottom of the lens and focuses by turning the lens cylinder that takes up the front one inch of about a four inch long lens - very precisely, too, with a diagonal split-focus line across the entire frame of the viewfinder. Oh well, back to the top shelf with the movie camera until Sylvester Stallone wants another Rocky sequel. Gary