Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]AAAARGH! Now I am really confused! ( As apposed to the general stupor I'm in anyway!) If, then I get the 40mm WA-Focotar, I'll have to send the V35 to Leica? There is no user changable cam? Should I just exchange the 50 Rodenstock on the enlarger for the 50 Focotar I have? - And forgo the 40? Dan ( No! It's just a nervous tic!) - ----- Original Message ----- From: Pieter Bras <pieter@world.std.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 3:50 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: enlargers - V35 in particular > Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote: > > > > From its introduction in 1978 until 1981, the V-35 was offered in a less > > costly version with the 2.5/50 Rodenstock Ysaron enlarging lens. I > > believe this was also autofocus and I don't believe it used a different > > camming arrangement: the 2.8/40 WA-Focotar was sold as a simple > > screw-in upgrade for these V-35's. > > Has anyone actually tried this "simple screw-in upgrade"? > > I don't see how the same cam can be used to focus both a 40mm and a > 50mm lens. > > There is also the question of the enlargement scale that would be > calibrated differently for the two focal lengths. > > According to the V35 instruction book, V35's with the 50mm lens could be > upgraded to the 40mm lens, but this required sending the enlarger back > to Leitz. > > Rudolph Seck's "Leica Darkroom Practice" (page 45) also states that > "This changeover can only be carried out in Leitz workshops." > > -- > Pieter Bras