Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/16

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Subject: Re: Telyt 1:4 /200
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 10:33:09 -0500

At 11:41 PM 11/15/96 -0700, Don wrote:

>The screw mount Telyt 200 was designed to be used with the Visoflex I
>reflex unit.  An adapter would be required to fit on a Visoflex II or III
>or directly to the body of a screw mount Leica or M Leica.
>
>Since you probably have none of those I would be more than happy to take
>this lens off your hands and put it good use. ;-)  Should you insist on
>trying to use it you'll need adapter TXBOO/14043 to mount directly to your
>M4 body.  Then you'll also need an SFTOO/12035 (or 12034 in meters) finder
>so you can make decent use of the lens by being able to see the area of
>coverage.


Direct mount is hardly the way to go:  scale focusing a 200mm lens is an
artistic device few of us could master.  Better a Viso II, IIa, or III with
an easily obtained OUBIO adapter.  It makes a neat package -- I use mine
quite a bit and love it.  It's a solid lens.

Marc

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