Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alex wrote, >What intrigues me further is that you would have thought the M version of this device would accept modern rigid M lenses without a problem. Well yes but it doesn't because they made it so it accepts the inner barrel of the lens not the bayonet. The inner barrel of the earlier collapsible 50s is what attaches to the BOOWU-M. The early 50s have inner barrels that unscrew from the focussing mount and attach to the BOOWU with an adapter that presumably looks like the inner bayonet thing on the collapsibles. The later 50s will also in most cases have optical units that unscrew from the focussing mount but they are not supposed to - or rather you the careful owner are not supposed to dismantle them thus. All this I know from bitter experience! Bests Adrian Adrian Bradshaw Editorial and Corporate Photography Shanghai, China