Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Close range does not work on a modified DR. On an unmodified lens. you can mount the lens in close focus mode and use it with goggles just fine if you don't want to permanently change it. It's not the curved swoosh, is the whole close range cam follower which is ground down. Afterwards the lens can physically be pulled out to close-focus mode but there is no rangefinder coupling. So the lens becomes a chrome rigid summicron after modification. You CAN take the optical unit from the DR and transplant it into a focusing unit of a rigid if you happen to find one with ugly optics. This is what I did so as not to permanently modify my favorite lens. Phil Forrest On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 01:25:06 -0800 Tom Schofield <tomschofield at comcast.net> wrote: > Could you elaborate? Did you send it out or DIY? Does the close > range work? Did you just grind down the curved "swoosh" beside the > RF cam? > > Tom