Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/30
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At 3:07 PM -0800 3/30/02, Doug Herr wrote:
> >
>> The Televit rapid focus is a special mount for
>> Visoflex to which can be fitted the lens heads of a number of long-focus
>> lenses: the 200/4 Telyts, the 280/4,8 of which Doug wrote and a monster
>> 400/5. I am not sure whether or not the lens head of your 400/6,8 will work
>> but I am reasonalby certain that the 280 head won't work on the
>>sliding focus
>> tube of hour 400/6,8.
>>
>> Now along will come Doug and say it's perfectly possible.
>>
>> Seth LaK 9
>>
>
>As far as I know the 200 f/4 and 400 f/5 could not be mounted on the
>Televit. You're right, the 280 head couldn't focus to infinity if it were
>somehow grafted onto the f/6.8's focussing tube.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
The 400/5 could be mounted, the 200/4 not. The earlier (by a couple
of years) Focorapid could accept lens heads from 135 to the 400/5.
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