Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:52 PM 10/13/1999 -0400, Doug Herr wrote: >The one with the aperture scale is 14127, not 14167, and was intended for >the Leicaflex Standard. It may also be used on the SL and SL2 (ignoring >the SL2's viewfinder aperture readout), and with exposure compensation may >be used with any R body. > >The 2 versions of 14167 are with or without the nul cam required by many >R-bodies for correct metering without compensation. The one without the >nul cam can be used on the SL and SL2 bodies with no special tricks; the >one with the nul cam may be used on any R-body except the Leicaflex >Standard with accurate metering. With either version of the 14167, the >Leicaflex Standard's meter will not give accurate results. Well, in that event there are THREE versions of the 14167: they did make one, now excruciatingly rare, which adapted the SL/SL2 lenses to the aperture scale. I have seen precisely ONE of these in the past ten years. They are rare, and are only tangentially mentioned in the literature. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!