Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Marking scratched on a 135mm Hektor
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:59:41 -0400

At 12:40 PM 6/10/99 -0400, Dan Post wrote:
>Mine has 135+ and 77X-- it also has the serial number- ending in '77'
>penciled on the light baffle in the barrel, along with '135. I would assume
>that the tubes and lens heads were matched at some point, and that the
>numbers were done to keep them paired if the head was removed for testing.
>Check the inside of the front of the lens barrel.

This is normal Leitz practice of the era.  The lenshead would, of course,
be removed for VISO use on a short mount;  the lenshead and focusing mount
were matched.

Marc

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