Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: step up/step down ring
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:00:35 -0800

I've ordered many step-up rings via Keeble & Shuchat.

Listed as lens -> filter: 55 -> 60, 55 -> 67, 60 -> 62, 60 -> 67, 67 -> 77

They are all B+W and did not take terribly long to get.

Jim

At 02:59 PM 12/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Roy,
>
>I have searched for one of those a long time.  I'm told that the actual name
>for this is a step-up ring.
>
>Most of my lenses are 60mm filter size, and my Summicron takes a 55mm
>filter, so my polarizer won't work...I just found one in Halifax, Nova
>Scotia.  The url of Reid Sweet/Retail Photographics is ReidSweet.com.  The
>Manager's name is Bruce Burns the phone is 902 423 8381, and the fax is 902
>429 3029.  BTW, all this info came to me from helpful Robert G. Stevens, one
>of our fellow LUGgers, who put me onto Bruce, and to whom I must say thanks
>again.
>
>It is a B+H part [Leica does not make one], and the numbers on my new ring
>are (4b) 60EI-55EA.  The male threads are 55mm, and the female, 60mm
>permitting the use of 60 mm filters on a lens with 55mm filter size.   The
>cost of the new ring, delivered in Denver USA was less than U$23.
>
>Your instincts are correct, this is a damned hard thing to find, in my
>experience.  I hope this helps.
>
>Enjoy the light.
>
>Greg Bicket
>
>
>