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Subject: [Leica] Looking for extension tube
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:21:17 -0500
References: <5F2A3F8D-B064-4BBB-A2DC-29B11B4E17F1@embarqmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20090303110112.02836828@pop.med.cornell.edu> <672FD903-58B3-4BFB-98C3-547223EBBDD7@embarqmail.com> <20090303231226.A172918A155@barracuda.rutabaga.org> <D8AB0266-C9CE-4774-98F3-2B432E0D6BEB@embarqmail.com> <20090304025836.D898618A692@barracuda.rutabaga.org>

thanks for looking

ric

On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Marc James Small wrote:

> At 07:40 PM 3/3/2009, Ric Carter wrote:
> >thanks anyway!
>
> Ric
>
> I did more digging but no joy:  no one gives the tube length.  Lager  
> suggests that the tube was shared between the various versions of  
> this rig and that the difference was in the length of the legs.  I  
> have only seen these in collections and have never used any of them,  
> though somewhere I have a Japanese version for Leica from the 1950's.
>
> Even the catalogues have proven of no assistance.  I would suggest  
> that you contact any of the following, as they probably have these  
> in their personal collections and can measure the tube for you.  I  
> do not have e-mails on any of them but can provide mailing addresses  
> for several.
>
> Jim Lager               New Jersey?
> Dan Black               Philadelphia
> Randy Hooper            Lexington, KY
> Emil Keller             upstate New York
>
> Seth can probably put you in touch with all of them.  Emil might be  
> your best bet, as he worked for Ernst Leitz Wetalar before the War,  
> then shifted to ELNY, served as the senior US Army agent at Wetzlar  
> after the War, and then returned to ELNY.  He was a very close  
> friend of Ernst Leitz II, Ludwig Leitz, and of Ernst Leitz III.
>
> I am an accumulator and a user and a student but these reproduction  
> devices just have never been on my radar screens.  You were correct  
> to ask if I had knowledge of them, but you have completely caught me  
> at a loss and the literature I have at hand simply fails to provide  
> a length for the 1:1 tube.  <sigh>  Lager, Morgan and Morgan, the  
> catalogues, und so weiter ....
>
> The original owner probably had a leak in his bathroom one night and  
> found that the 1:1 tube made a perfect fit for the leaky part of the  
> pipe.  I am certain that it is still there today, still doing its  
> job, albeit not the job for which it was intended.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall at aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
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