Re: Objective info request

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Thanks, I'll scout around. I guess if I start going to camera shows I can
always yell' "ROADTRIP" and take the wife along!
I tried to avoid getting absolutely NEW stuff as it is costly, and for my
purposes, used is more than adquate to photgraph crystals, and bug innards.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, 25 November, 1997 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Objective info request

>The standard thread for microscope objectives is that of the Royal
>Microscope Society, called, without a trace of apparent humour, the 'royal
>screw' (4/5" by 1/36").  It is shared, even to this day, by
>macro-objectives such as the Zeiss Luminar and Leitz/Leica Photar lenses.
>
>As to who sells these, well, they are catch and catch can.  I happened to
>get my Luminar at a camera show.  The Photar lenses are still available
>new.  I believe Rodenstock and Scheider also make like lenses.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>