Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 97-08-19 02:12:29 EDT, you write: << To: cameras@jetlink.t Subject: Re: Moss on Moss Stephen - here it is Cheers Marvin << Subj: Roy Moss on the DR: THE ANSWERS! Date: 97-08-07 05:46:05 EDT From: msmall@roanoke.infi.net (Marc James Small) Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Roy Moss, "The Eyes Have It!" VIEWFINDER 28:1 (First Quarter, 1995), p. 38. Roy says there are two runs of the DR lens but does not give a splitting point either by date or serial number. 11318/SOOIC-MN Early. single focusing scale (either feet or meters) with reproduction ratios. Marked '5cm', the last Leica production lens, to my knowledge, to bear a centimeter marking for the focal length. 11318/SOMNI Later. dual focusing scale (both feet and meters) but no reproduction ratios. Marked '50mm'. 14002/SDP)) the eyes for the above lenses Roy goes on to say, "[O]n most M6 cameras, when used in the normal focusing range at or near infinity, the rear of the len's (sic) focusing helicoid _may_ be obstructed by the casing of the photo cell requiring that the M6's photo cell casing be modified." MJS NOTE: It is my understanding that the eyes for each version of the DR lens are not interchangeable. I believe the early eyes all had the polygon surrounding the Leitz name, while later eyes are simply engraved with the Leitz name without a surround. I do not know the year or serial number of the break. Mine is an early one: 1586763 dating from 1958. Marc Marc James Small Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir! FAX: +540/343-7315 > >>