Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:40 PM 3/3/2009, Ric Carter wrote: >thanks anyway! Ric I did more digging but no joy: no one gives the tube length. Lager suggests that the tube was shared between the various versions of this rig and that the difference was in the length of the legs. I have only seen these in collections and have never used any of them, though somewhere I have a Japanese version for Leica from the 1950's. Even the catalogues have proven of no assistance. I would suggest that you contact any of the following, as they probably have these in their personal collections and can measure the tube for you. I do not have e-mails on any of them but can provide mailing addresses for several. Jim Lager New Jersey? Dan Black Philadelphia Randy Hooper Lexington, KY Emil Keller upstate New York Seth can probably put you in touch with all of them. Emil might be your best bet, as he worked for Ernst Leitz Wetalar before the War, then shifted to ELNY, served as the senior US Army agent at Wetzlar after the War, and then returned to ELNY. He was a very close friend of Ernst Leitz II, Ludwig Leitz, and of Ernst Leitz III. I am an accumulator and a user and a student but these reproduction devices just have never been on my radar screens. You were correct to ask if I had knowledge of them, but you have completely caught me at a loss and the literature I have at hand simply fails to provide a length for the 1:1 tube. <sigh> Lager, Morgan and Morgan, the catalogues, und so weiter .... The original owner probably had a leak in his bathroom one night and found that the 1:1 tube made a perfect fit for the leaky part of the pipe. I am certain that it is still there today, still doing its job, albeit not the job for which it was intended. Marc msmall at aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!