Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Nick, Me, too! I'd love to have one of those "tab thingys" or focusing tabs put on my whistle-slick 50mm Summicron as "Sweendog" (sweenma@WKUUX1.WKU.EDU) posted a really good tip of quickly focusing an M lense using a technique I never thought of or heard of. Thanks, Tom Hodge On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Edi Weitz wrote: > At 10:18 09.04.1996 -0600, Nicholas Hartmann wrote: > > >My Summicron is a black Wetzlar (German) lens, which I'm told was > >manufactured in the late 1970s. It has no focusing tab, only a knurled > >barrel. I recently had a tab fitted, however, because I found the tab so > >useful on other lenses, especially for fine focusing. > > Nick, > > I also have one of those 70's 50mm Summicrons without the tab and would like > to have one fitted. Could you please tell me who fitted the tab for you? And > how much did you have to pay? (Unfortunately I live in Germany and I'm quite > sure it will be hard to find somebody who'll do it here. Nevertheless I > would be interested in any information.) > > Thanks, Edi. > >