Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Kilar 135/3,8
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 10:39:15 -0500

At 11:11 AM 12/1/97 GMT, Jeremy Kime wrote:
>
>If you like the world of the wierd and wonderful in Leica-fit lenses, then 
>sure, it's different to the masses, I have a 90/3.5 Kilfitt lens on the 
>front on one of their old reflex housings, I know they also made a 150/3.5.
> Something to check if you want to buy it is whether it's designed to work 
>on the reflex housing or not, I'm not sure whether it used the same camera 
>to flange dimension as the early ploot housings or  screw  Visos.

It didn't.  There is a minor depth difference between the Kilfitt reflex
housings and that of the PLOOT/VISO I.  Kilfitt made an adapter -- COZWI --
to permit Leitz VISO lenses to be used on a Kilfitt reflex housing.

Marc


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