Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, You are on firm grounds here. Karl Mueller is now Novoflex. Memmingen is about 100km east of Muenchen (Munich). I think it is already in Bavaria. It is a very nice town, possibly 1000 years old. They also brew a very good Bier, available in many other Cities. Regards, Horst Schmidt Marc James Small wrote: > I just picked up a most fascinating Reproflex reflex housing on e-Bay, made > by Karl Mueller, Jr., Memmingen. I suspect I am on firm ground linking > this firm to the current NOVOFLEX FOTOGERÄTEBAU KARL MÜLLER, also locaed in > Memmingen. This Reproflex seems to be a forerunner of the Novoflex reflex > units which appeared in both LTM/M and Contax RF versions. > > Unfortunately, this unit, though it did come with the three close-up tubes > mentioned in the instructions (and with the instructions, also!), lacked > the release bridge, the linkage between the shutter release and the mirror > in the reflex unit. I have e-mailed the seller in hopes that he still has > this and will pass it along, but this is probably a vain hope. I may > contact Novoflex: they reproduced a one-off release bridge for my Contax > Novoflex reflex housing a decade back, and I may be able to sweet-talk them > into doing this again, for the Reproflex this time. > > I am rather excited: yet another entry for the second edition (!) of my > LTM lens book! > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!