Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:18 PM 19-08-97 -0600, you wrote: >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. In order to mount the eyes on the lens (or at least, on my version of it), the lens must be in the short focus range. Dan C.