Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:54 AM 3/24/2000 -0000, Doug Richardson wrote: >Let me try to explain... Since the Series filters are hard to get and >apparently exist in only limited types, Well, I dispute that statement, intensely. Series filters are quite easy to get and quite inexpensive: Harrison & Harrison, for instance, produces a full range of them, for around $10 each, give or take. And I believe both Heliopan and B+W still produce them as well. As to the Leica conversions, though, these can be found on page 257 of that indispensable, though incomplete, referrence, Laney's LEICA COLLECTORS GUIDE. The 2/50 Summicron-R takes a Series VI adapter with an E44 thread. The early 2.8/135 Elmarit takes a Series VII adapter with an E54 thread. In both cases, Leitz sold polarizers with those threads and did not rely on a Series polarizer, though one WAS made in Series VII (13370) for the 2.8 and 2/35 R lenses, which did have the rotating wheel. The E44 polarizer is Leitz 13358 (graduated) or 13353 (circular); the E54 polarizer is Leitz 13359 (graduated) or 13354 (circular). Please note that I have one of the E54 polarizers available on my FS list. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!