Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Long M Lenses
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:20:53 -0500

Marc James Small jotted down the following:

> At 08:32 PM 1/29/2001 -0500, Martin Howard wrote:
>> Isn't that what the OUBIO adapter is?  The difference in optical
>> registration between a PLOTT/Viso I and a Viso II/IIa/III?
> 
> Sure, but it works to ADD distance to the shorter Viso I/PLOOT lenses to
> fit them to a Viso II/IIa/III.  It won't work to SUBTRACT distance from the
> longer II/IIa/III lenses to make them work with the three tubes of which we
> have been speaking, though a clever machinist could do the dirty deed with
> ease.

Aha!  Another case of me opening my big mouth before actually understanding
what the conversation was about.  ;)

M.

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