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Subject: [Leica] Copying Gauge Lens Question
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Sat Dec 1 06:41:56 2007
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Thanks!
s.d.


On Dec 1, 2007, at 5:51 AM, Ed Kowaleski wrote:

Sorry, I haven't a clue.

Ed K
----- Original Message ----- From: "slobodan dimitrov"  
<s.dimitrov@charter.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Copying Gauge Lens Question


> Would you know if a LTM Summitar could be used on a SOMKY.
> s.d.
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Ed Kowaleski wrote:
> I believe that the BOOWU (#16525) was used with screw mount  
> lenses.   I do not know what screw mount lenses were usable with  
> that Auxiliary  Reproduction Unit but I would guess that the screw  
> mount 50 mm  Collapsible Summicron would work.
> The unit that was to be used with M type Bayonet mounts was the   
> BOWUM. There are at least two lenses which could be used with the   
> BOWUM (#165256) One was the collapsible 50 mm Summicron in a  
> bayonet  mount.  When collapsed the rear lens element was  
> surrounded by a  smallish bayonet mount (as the UOORF # 16508)  
> which mounted directly  into one of the three adapter spacers The  
> other lens was a rigid 50mm  Summicron (code 11817) with serial  
> numbers from approximately  2.268,000 to 2,995,000  (see Sartorius,  
> Identifying Leica Lenses,  Amphoto, 1999, p.82).  The lens head in  
> this unit was removable and  screwed into the 16508 Y adapter which  
> in turn could be fitted to the  close focusing device 16507  
> (BOOWU).  In the 1981 catalogue, this  adapter listed for $3.60.  
> Lots of luck finding it..
> There may be other lenses that could be adapted but these are the   
> only two bayonet units I know of that would work.
> Hope this helps.
> Ed Kowaleski
> Original Message ----- From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 6:57 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Copying Gauge Lens Question
>> Hi list. I recently got a Copying Gauge for fun and to preserve   
>> another cool Leica historical gadget.
>> The model is BOOWU-M 16526 H. It has three adaptor/spacers with   
>> four screw in legs. The idea was/is for copying fixed area documents
>> or similar.
>> The one I got is in M mount and the spacers bayonet to my M  
>> bodies.  However the side to accept the lens has a smaller, different
>> bayonet. I expected it to accept a normal M mount 50mm. I am   
>> familiar with the visoflexes, that use screw thread lens heads  
>> without
>> their focusing section and mount. Is this a similar idea?
>> If so, which older 50mm lenses have this removable lens head with  
>> a  small bayonet on it? Or do they have a thread like the Visoflex
>> lens I have?
>> My references mention an UOORF bayonet adaptor. This looks to be   
>> small bayonet to the spacer and screw thread to the lens head. But
>> the instruction leaflet says that some 50mm lenses bayonet  
>> directly  to the spacers???
>>
>> You Leica goodies experts, (Marc, I'm thinking of you!) what am I   
>> missing here, literally or figuratively???
>>
>> Cheers, Geoff
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/
>>
>>
>>
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