Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Question about "Eyes"
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 23:13:39 -0700

At 9:50 PM -0700 5/28/00, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
>Greetings ...
>
>I've been looking at a few DR Summicrons and have come across several
>descriptions of the "eyes".  One is "bug eyes" and another  person noted
>that they were "big eyes".  Is there more than one style of eyes for
>these lenses, or are people just calling them what they will?  What is
>the correct terminology of these eyes?  Thanks!
>
>--
>Shel Belinkoff
>mailto:belinkoff@earthlink.net

In the catalogs of the time it was generally called a 'finder attachment'
or sometimes 'finder attachment for near focussing range', so no wonder
'bug eyes' or even just 'eyes' evolved. 'Big eyes' refers to the stereo
model using two Noctiluxes (very rare). If you focussed that setup too
close you got 'Big cross eyes'.

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