Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: DR Summicron
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:37:33 -0400

At 01:59 PM 8/10/1999 -0700, Gib Robinson wrote:
>Yes. The lens unscrews from the barrel. I don't know why they were 
>manufactured that way, but they were. The barrel mate to my lens
>has the same serial # inscribed where the lens sits when screwed in.
>Perhaps the lens could be used for the visoflex or put to some other 
>purpose, I don't know. Would some lens historian enlighten us here?

Yes, that is exactly why the head comes off.  It can be fitted to a Bellows
rig for close-up work.

There is no finer method of making extreme close-ups than with a Visoflex
II or IIa or III on an M6 with a Bellows II.  Wonderful!

Marc

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