Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Randolph: I got my 400 5.6 Televit-R about a month ago with the Leica shoulder stock. I think what both you and I are missing is the original shoulder stock that bayoneted into the mount just below the lens mount. This way, the camera and stock stay stationary while you use the pistol grip to move the lens back and forth, sort of like a trombone. They way you have it set up, the camera will move back and forth in relation to your eye and shoulder when focusing. To adapt mine to having the pistol stock mounted to the moving camera mount part, I made an L shaped bracket which I attached to the socket under the lens mount. I then attach the pistol grip-shoulder stock to that bracket. I attached the L bracket by using a 1/4" screw and a 10-24 set screw beside it ground to fit the keyway so that the bracket doesn't spin. To attach the 1/4 screw into the keyway, I took off the cover to the keyway and inserted a 1/4 wing nut with the wings cut off to fit the keyway and put the cover back in place. I suppose a stock shoulder piece is available for it, but I assume it is just a bent aluminum rod with no handle or provision for a trigger as this lens is pre-motor drive vintage and you would use the cameras release. I put my combo on my flatbed and scanned it to show you what I mean. I hold the focus grip in my left hand and the pistol stock grip in my right hand. To focus, I push in on the focus tension trigger and push or pull and then fine tune with the knob by using my left thumb. I trigger the shutter with my right finger using the remote release on the shoulder stock. http://home.iSTAR.ca/~robsteve/400mm-Televit-r.jpg As for tripod and monopod, my lens had both 1/4" and 3/8" mountings on the forward underside of the lens under the aperture ring. http://home.iSTAR.ca/~robsteve/400mm-Televit-r-mount.jpg Maybe any other LUG members that have this lens can describe the proper shoulder brace for it. Regards, Robert At 02:42 PM 2/3/99 -0800, you wrote: >Xavier: >I have the 400 f/5.6 with the fast focus thing (Televit?) and gunstock. >It handles just fine. The pistol grip has a tripod mount that is used >by passing a 1/4 x 20 tripod screw through the gunstock mount plate into >the pistol grip. Make sure that your tripod screw is one of those that >has a female 1/4 x 20 on its backside. Without this you can not use the >tripod and the gunstock at the same time. This could be trouble if you >wanted to use a monopod at a football game, etc. > > > > >