Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 03:50:58 -0400 >From: pieter@world.std.com (Pieter Bras) >Subject: [Leica] Re: enlargers - V35 in particular > >Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote: >> >> From its introduction in 1978 until 1981, the V-35 was offered in a less >> costly version with the 2.5/50 Rodenstock Ysaron enlarging lens. I >> believe this was also autofocus and I don't believe it used a different >> camming arrangement: the 2.8/40 WA-Focotar was sold as a simple >> screw-in upgrade for these V-35's. > >Has anyone actually tried this "simple screw-in upgrade"? > >I don't see how the same cam can be used to focus both a 40mm and a >50mm lens. > >There is also the question of the enlargement scale that would be >calibrated differently for the two focal lengths. > >According to the V35 instruction book, V35's with the 50mm lens could be >upgraded to the 40mm lens, but this required sending the enlarger back >to Leitz. > >Rudolph Seck's "Leica Darkroom Practice" (page 45) also states that >"This changeover can only be carried out in Leitz workshops." > >- -- >Pieter Bras > ############## Comment : Some 10 years ago, I planned to buy a V35 without a lens in order to put my focotar-2 50mm on it. Wetzlar sent me a mail (I lost it because I abandoned the idea): 1°) You have to change the cam 2°) It is possible to do the job yourself with a drawing. Dominique Pellissier