[Leica] Re: Off-List: Using Bellows II

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

At 03:08 PM 6/29/2007, Stan Yoder wrote:
 >Marc, thanks for the reply. While I'm still interested in the
 >combination, I did order another
 >OTRPO/16471 tube from an LHSAer, which will also enable closer work.

Stan

As I e-mailed you off-List, time has been of the 
essence of late (I have done three U-Haul runs in 
the past six days from Roanoke, Virginia, to 
Richmond, Virginia, and the last one was made 
yesterday, when we closed on the sale of our 
house there.  We unloaded it here today:  it is 
amazing just how a decent dolly can aid you.  My 
wife recently bought a heavy-duty one with 
pneumatic tires and damned if she and I weren't 
able to off-load even a 36-hp VW engine, the 
engine from the first car I ever owned back in 
the longago.  My wife toted it on Hello, Dolly! 
while I steadied it to help her out, with her 
complaining about her arthritis and bad back the 
whole time and how unreasonable some people can 
be.  <he grins>  It was nothing like that at all, 
of course:  she assured me that she could handle 
it and for me to stand aside.  <he grins 
again>  In any event, the house in Roanoke is 
history and is a sad loss as I loved that house, 
but for the first time in donkey's years we now 
have ALL of our possessions in a single place, 
albeit the two-car garage has both bays loaded 
until we sort things out, and much of my camera 
gear and references are buried therein and will 
emerge over the next several years in a sort of 
archaeological dig into our possessions.

In any event, I have lacked time to dig through 
my references or to consult that magnificent 
Erwin Puts' CD-ROM regarding Stan's basic 
question.  But I did have a few minutes to pull 
out a Viso III, a Bellows II, and my 4/135 
Elmar.  I unscrewed the lens-head.  This is a 
LONG lens-head.  You need an OTSRO adapter to 
accommodate this to the basic Bellows II adapter 
plate.  Yes, this does accommodate infinity focus 
and also allows close-ups to a foot or so.

Marc


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