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[Brian]

What KR does not understand: this lens was made for a film camera, not a digital camera. There are differences in how film lies at the plane of focus: it is not flat. When used with a Digital camera, the fast Cosina/Voigtlander and Zeiss lenses benefit from being optimized for digital.

I put one layer of copper tape on the RF cam of the 50/1.1 and 35/1.2. Focus is perfect with them on the M9, M Monochrom. For film- not as critical as there is a curvature.

 

[Kingsfan]

now that i think about it, i don't know if i've ever seen a photo taken by rockwell...

 

[defektive]

man ken rockwell irritates the shit out of me.

+1.

 

[Penfan2010]

 

[Haans]

Leitz dot M6 #1658xxx first batch. Very clean and CLA'd recently. Luigi half case. Lens is 1995 50mm Summilux.

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[greyelm]

GAS got the better of me and I received this 1937/8 IIIb over the weekend.

 

[Brian]

I would have Gas'd up to! That is a beauty. The IIIb is "uncommon" compared to the III, IIIa, and IIIc.

 

[greyelm]

I would have Gas'd up to! That is a beauty. The IIIb is "uncommon" compared to the III, IIIa, and IIIc.

It is a little beauty, the shutter blinds look good, the RF is useable and the shutter sounds ok. I snapped it up (body only) from an online dealer for £130 ($200) delivered, which I regard as a bargain these days. The smaller body size coupled with the benefits of the later style VF/RF makes it much more pocketable than the IIIc,f,g. I hope to take it out for a run sometime.

 

[Brian]

No need for apologies.

On the lens: the Pen F lenses would not cover the full-frame image. You could adapt an Olympus OM mount 50/1.8 or 50/1.4 lens to RF coupled M-Mount. Buy a Foto-Diox adapter, and make a cam for it. It's a "hack" that works. I was using a Minolta MC Mount 50/1.4 on the M8 yesterday.

 

[Brian]

A half-frame lens will just cover an M8 sensor: I converted a 28/2.8 Industar-69 to focus on a Leica.

The 50/1.8 Olympus would be quite good on the Leica. The first lens I converted from SLR mount to Leica RF coupled mount was the Konica 50/1.7. In the June '76 Pop Photo lens test, it equaled the Summicron Rigid type 2. Lens and adapter was $90, spent a day doing the conversion.

 

[Brian]

On the Jupiter-3: if the focus stop and RF infinity agree (lens turned all the way, RF indicates infinity) then the focus ring itself need to be re-indexed. Three set screws out, new taps, re-index the ring. If the lens does not drive the RF to infinity, the focus helical needs to be repositioned in the mount.

4T-64450/64700D-A NTN Bearing | 4T-64450/64700D+A NTN inculde

Jason Howe hosts PDF downloads that I wrote for the J-3.

 

[Brian]

If the focus ring will not drive the RF cam to infinity, ie, the lens stops short of the camera indicating infinity: the helical needs to be screwed in farther to the mount. Start a thread and post the question, I will look over my computer for the images of the "how to".

 

[Vidar]

 

[Mr_Flibble]

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My pride and joy; Leica IIIc, delivered to the US Army of the Occupation in August 1945. An unmarked "K" according to the ledgers.

 

[Brian]

Two classic beauties!

My IIIf is a converted Post-war IIIc, made just after the war. Came with a coated Elmar. I'll tell the camera grab-bag story on another thread...

 

[Mr_Flibble]

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1941 Leica IIIc with red shutter curtains, showing off my Xenon 50 f/1.5 from 1937. This was when I just received it from KEH. This lens was a mess.

I have 5 wartime IIIc Leicas, Brian. But I only have a single wartime lens.

 

[Brian]

1941 Leica IIIc with red shutter curtains, showing off my Xenon 50 f/1.5 from 1937. This was when I just received it from KEH. This lens was a mess.

I have 5 wartime IIIc Leicas, Brian. But I only have a single wartime lens.

Gorgeous. The results with the newly polished Xenon posted on Photo.net looked great. Could you post the images in our "Sample Archive"?

https://www.leicaplace.com/f34/

No one has posted any images with the Xenon.

I have pre-war bodies, and post-war bodies. I have two wartime Zeiss Sonnar 5cm F1.5's in original LTM, one odd one in Contax mount. The "odd one" has a different rear group, a doublet in place of the triplet. I also have a wartime Karat-Xenar converted to Leica mount and a 5cm F2 Sonnar "T" converted to Leica.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

And my dual stroke Leica M3, with pre-war Summitar and ExExplorer half case.

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[Mr_Flibble]

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Leica I (model E, 1938), with nickel Leitz 35mm f/3.5 Elmar (1936 If I recall correctly) and VIOOH variable focus viewfinder with lyre-shaped body and dual-range parallax correction.


Came to me as "Inoperative" from KEH.com. I've never been able to figure out what exactly was supposed to be inoperative about it.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Some of my Leica gear from two years ago.

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Back row left to right:
Leica IIIc (1942) with 50mm f/2 Summar
Leica IIIa (1938) with 50mm f/3.5 Elmar (with IIIf flash synchronization upgrade)
Leica I (1938) with 35mm f/3.5 Elmar (Nickel)

Middle Row left to right:
Leica III (1936) with 50mm f/2 Summitar (This camera has since been sold)
Leica IIIc (1941, red curtains) with 50mm f/3.5 Elmar

Front Row
Leica IIIa (1937) with 90mm f/4 Elmar


Since then I've added 3 more IIIc cameras and my M3
I think I might be addicted to LTM cameras