Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, I haven't a clue. Ed K ----- Original Message ----- From: "slobodan dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Copying Gauge Lens Question > Would you know if a LTM Summitar could be used on a SOMKY. > s.d. > > > On Nov 30, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Ed Kowaleski wrote: > > I believe that the BOOWU (#16525) was used with screw mount lenses. > I do not know what screw mount lenses were usable with that Auxiliary > Reproduction Unit but I would guess that the screw mount 50 mm > Collapsible Summicron would work. > > The unit that was to be used with M type Bayonet mounts was the > BOWUM. There are at least two lenses which could be used with the > BOWUM (#165256) One was the collapsible 50 mm Summicron in a bayonet > mount. When collapsed the rear lens element was surrounded by a > smallish bayonet mount (as the UOORF # 16508) which mounted directly > into one of the three adapter spacers The other lens was a rigid 50mm > Summicron (code 11817) with serial numbers from approximately > 2.268,000 to 2,995,000 (see Sartorius, Identifying Leica Lenses, > Amphoto, 1999, p.82). The lens head in this unit was removable and > screwed into the 16508 Y adapter which in turn could be fitted to the > close focusing device 16507 (BOOWU). In the 1981 catalogue, this > adapter listed for $3.60. Lots of luck finding it.. > > There may be other lenses that could be adapted but these are the > only two bayonet units I know of that would work. > > Hope this helps. > > Ed Kowaleski > > > > Original Message ----- From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 6:57 PM > Subject: [Leica] Copying Gauge Lens Question > > >> Hi list. I recently got a Copying Gauge for fun and to preserve >> another cool Leica historical gadget. >> The model is BOOWU-M 16526 H. It has three adaptor/spacers with >> four screw in legs. The idea was/is for copying fixed area documents >> or similar. >> The one I got is in M mount and the spacers bayonet to my M bodies. >> However the side to accept the lens has a smaller, different >> bayonet. I expected it to accept a normal M mount 50mm. I am >> familiar with the visoflexes, that use screw thread lens heads without >> their focusing section and mount. Is this a similar idea? >> If so, which older 50mm lenses have this removable lens head with a >> small bayonet on it? Or do they have a thread like the Visoflex >> lens I have? >> My references mention an UOORF bayonet adaptor. This looks to be >> small bayonet to the spacer and screw thread to the lens head. But >> the instruction leaflet says that some 50mm lenses bayonet directly >> to the spacers??? >> >> You Leica goodies experts, (Marc, I'm thinking of you!) what am I >> missing here, literally or figuratively??? >> >> Cheers, Geoff >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >