Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i got curious when i saw the message about the DR summicron. i have a DS-M3 with the DR summicron. i also picked up a set of eyes with the polygon surrounding the leitz name. this is chrome, says made in germany. i have not been able to get it to mount on the summicron. it starts on, but when the baseplate of the eyes comes in contact with the ball on top of the lens, it won't move any further. so, is this a 'freezing' of the ball on which this is to seat, or is there more than one type of early eyes? no serial number on the eyes, unfortunately, but the lens serial number is 1468145. if it is a case of the ball (which must be spring loaded in some way) freezing, i guess i should take it over to focal point to unfreeze. !Subj: Roy Moss on the DR: THE ANSWERS! !Date: 97-08-07 05:46:05 EDT !From: msmall@roanoke.infi.net (Marc James Small) !Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us !Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us !To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us ! !Roy Moss, "The Eyes Have It!" VIEWFINDER 28:1 (First Quarter, 1995), p. !38. ! !Roy says there are two runs of the DR lens but does not give a splitting !point either by date or serial number. ! !11318/SOOIC-MN Early. single focusing scale (either feet or meters) with ! reproduction ratios. Marked '5cm', the last Leica production ! lens, to my knowledge, to bear a centimeter marking for the focal ! length. !11318/SOMNI Later. dual focusing scale (both feet and meters) but no ! reproduction ratios. Marked '50mm'. !14002/SDP)) the eyes for the above lenses ! !Roy goes on to say, "[O]n most M6 cameras, when used in the normal focusing !range at or near infinity, the rear of the len's (sic) focusing helicoid !_may_ be obstructed by the casing of the photo cell requiring that the M6's !photo cell casing be modified." ! !MJS NOTE: It is my understanding that the eyes for each version of the DR !lens are not interchangeable. I believe the early eyes all had the polygon !surrounding the Leitz name, while later eyes are simply engraved with the !Leitz name without a surround. ! !I do not know the year or serial number of the break. Mine is an early !one: 1586763 dating from 1958. ! !Marc ! ! !Marc James Small !Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir! !FAX: +540/343-7315