Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The new book from Jim Lager, Leica an illustrated history, volume III, accessories, is really fascinating. One exemple is the Visoflex II turret for three lenses on page 302. Amazing. The only wrong note is that on page 188 there is the ugliest Leica thing I ever saw. A kind of Desert Storm M3 committed by G.B.Metzcar with camouflage finish on it and on the SBOOI viewfinder, IROOA lens hood and 50/2 Summicron. Black, kakhi, sand and brown. The picture is in color. Beurk ! This put aside, the book, like the two others (vol. I cameras and vol.II lenses) is really wonderful. When you read it, you can see the filiation of several accessories or lenses of the present Leica program. Like the APO MODUL or telescope ocular. And you will also rediscover all those nice accessories and lenses which are still perfectly usable today, like the viewfinders, tripod heads, table top tripods, panorama heads, bubble levels, BEOON copy stand, leicameter, flash brackets, visoflex lenses etc... Lucien