Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here is Dan Black's web site and contact info. He has an awful lot of stuff, mostly the older LTM gear and early M. I wouldn't be surprised if he had what you want. It might just take awhile for him to find it. Len <http://www.danblackleica.com/index.php> On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > thanks for looking > > ric > > On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > >> At 07:40 PM 3/3/2009, Ric Carter wrote: >> >thanks anyway! >> >> Ric >> >> I did more digging but no joy: no one gives the tube length. >> Lager suggests that the tube was shared between the various >> versions of this rig and that the difference was in the length of >> the legs. I have only seen these in collections and have never >> used any of them, though somewhere I have a Japanese version for >> Leica from the 1950's. >> >> Even the catalogues have proven of no assistance. I would suggest >> that you contact any of the following, as they probably have these >> in their personal collections and can measure the tube for you. I >> do not have e-mails on any of them but can provide mailing >> addresses for several. >> >> Jim Lager New Jersey? >> Dan Black Philadelphia >> Randy Hooper Lexington, KY >> Emil Keller upstate New York >> >> Seth can probably put you in touch with all of them. Emil might >> be your best bet, as he worked for Ernst Leitz Wetalar before the >> War, then shifted to ELNY, served as the senior US Army agent at >> Wetzlar after the War, and then returned to ELNY. He was a very >> close friend of Ernst Leitz II, Ludwig Leitz, and of Ernst Leitz III. >> >> I am an accumulator and a user and a student but these >> reproduction devices just have never been on my radar screens. >> You were correct to ask if I had knowledge of them, but you have >> completely caught me at a loss and the literature I have at hand >> simply fails to provide a length for the 1:1 tube. <sigh> Lager, >> Morgan and Morgan, the catalogues, und so weiter .... >> >> The original owner probably had a leak in his bathroom one night >> and found that the 1:1 tube made a perfect fit for the leaky part >> of the pipe. I am certain that it is still there today, still >> doing its job, albeit not the job for which it was intended. >> >> Marc >> >> >> msmall at aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information