Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information