Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not that I have experience with it, but Karen N. does. But it's the other way around, he services Jupiters to work with Leica bodies, if you have a Leica body. The bodies I was talking about were Kiev/Contax bodies. With them you have a situation similar to the Leica bodies pre-IIIc. They are not in one piece and the dimensions for Contax (Kiev) were never nailed down. Zeiss did a lot of good work, but this one particular blemish (not standardizing on bodies and lens to focal plane distances) is astonishing. You had to be your own mechanic to get a Zeiss lens to work on a Zeiss camera. So they put in "shims" (washers) that could be thickened or thinned (on the lenses) depending on how your body was put together. Leica had this problem too before the IIIc. From the IIIc and onwards, they had cast bodies and the tolerances were Leica standards. Daniel On 11/10/05, Lew <lew@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Oleg services Leica bodies to work with Jupiters? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Testing a new Jupiter > > > > On 11/10/05, Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl> wrote: > > > >> You're lucky you got a good one the first time. It took me three to get > >> a good one. > > > > You're right, Michiel, luck is the operative word. This was my second > > one. > > > > It worked right out of the box on bodies that had been serviced by Oleg. > > > > I'm going to quit while I'm ahead now. The first one was fouled up > > (loose elements). I sent it off to be repaired, otherwise I'd not be > > able to sell it. > > > > But this one, a black one from 1969, is a beauty. > > > > Daniel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >